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Lord Nuffield Founds

New College in Oxford

THREE LATEST GIFTS TOTAL £1,300,000

Three new gifts of the total value of £1,300,000 from Lord. Nuffield to Oxford University are announced recently as follows:

£1,000,000 for a new college to encourage research, especially in the field of social studies.

A site worth £100,000 for the college.

£200,000 in trust as additional endowment for his previous medical research gift of £2,000,000 for extensions to hospitals associated with the scheme. Lord Nuffield has been informed that the Hebdomadal Council of the University has received his offer with gratitude and will promote the necessary legislation in Congregation as soon as possible.

It was announced on behalf of Lordi Nufeld last night that, while he In grateful for all expressions of appreciation of his gifts, he cannot under- take to deal with or answer any correspondence on the subject. cular, he is not considering other benefactions at present.

in parti-

DETAILS OF SCHEME

Of the million pounds for the college, "not more than £100,000 ls to be used for the erection and equipment of the laboratory of physlent chemistry, the first charge on the balance being the erection of a college building; worthy of the highest traditions of Oxford architecture."

Referring to the site, Lord Nulleld, in his letter to

the Vice-Chancellor, payst

"It has long been my desire to improve the as- peel of the approach to Oxford from the west, anl. with that object. I recently purchased the large ganal-wharf which lies to the north of the New Road, in the hope that part, the value of which is approximately £100,000, might become the site of some university building of an appropriate kind, to All the gap between Worcester College and Pembroke College."

Lord Nameld hopes that the new college will bidge the gulf which axlits between academie studies and practiest affairs rnd produce a flow of recruits to in- dustry.

In formally comerating the con- ditions of the £1,000,000 gift Lord Nuffield say the college art its endowigenis inust be under the direct control of the Hebdomadal Council. though it can delegnie ny part of

its function.

THE MAIN OBJECT

"The main object of my propused endowment, in the Bght of which also the subsequent emditinns shall all be read," he writes, "is to encourage re- search, especially but not exclusively in the held of acial studies, and especially by making easier the co-

and operation of aelemie academic persons."

-

He proceeds-to-dual--with--delails of the establishment of University Pd- lowship: tenubile at the college and coniburs!

"A further part of the proposed endowment shall be used for the provision of rent-free rooms for post- graduate students, and for the pay- ment of emoluments to deserving students who are in need of them, these students mast have resided as members of the University for at least one year."

The college is to be undenomina- tional. He proposes to give the Uni- versity wide powers to alter details.

Other extracts from Lord Nufleld's

Total: Over

£10,000,000

Lord Nuffeld's public gifts now total over £10,000,000.

By the end of last year he had distributed over £7,430,000

In addition to many divident amounts of less than

£10.000.

This year's donalium, Including to-day's, uni to over £1,835,000,

In August Lord Nuffield gave £35,000 for "talking bucks" for the blind, £50,000 for Pembroke College, Oxford, and £24,000 for the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, London; last month,

£10,000 for the Worcester Royal Infirmary; this moll, £50,000

the Hospital for

for Sick Children, Holborn, and £15,000 for an Exeter hosptial.

Last month the gifts were

Tuesday, £100,000 (South Africa); Wednesday, Royal Bucks Hospital. £6,000; Thurs- slay, £10,000 (Coventry), and Friday. £300,000, Radcliffe Inarmars, Oxford,

Lord Nufield's previous blg donatiorts:

Employees' Trust Medical research,

Oxford Univ. Special Areas Radcliffe Infirmary Orthopaedle Surgery St. Thomas's Hosp Oxford University

£2,125.000

£2,000,000

£2,000,000

£150.000

£125,000

£101,000 £100,000

People Past 40 Eat Too Much, Says Doctor

(By John U. Tetrell) United Press Staff Correspondent

Sun Francisco, Oct. 20-Public Enemy No. 1 is not a gangster or Kangster's ON. He's something rather indescribable who goes by the

nume

You've

Eating. of O. Ver probably met up with him.

Dr. Victor G, Heiser, noted globe- girdling health officer, who has spent more than half a century battling alsvases which could wipe out cities

armles and

with one Infectious sweep, says that the habit of over- created eating has

the

Breatest national crime Wave America has ever known.

NOVEMBER 18, 1937.

BRITON'S STORY OF TORTURE

KEPT PRISONER BY FRANCO'S MEN

London, Oct. 24. Beaten up by Franco's thugs, falsely accused of being a spy, herded with natives in a secret prison, and told he would be shot, .. Such was the dventure of Mr. Arthur H. Whyard, a Highbury man, who has just arrived back in London after his cacape from the firing squad, writes a correspond- ent.

His only "crime" was that he had earlier been in Republican Spuln He went there early this year to try to earn a living by writing.

He had no success and came back to England, where he shipped as n sailor on a cargo boat bound for West Alrico,

At Lagos he went down with fever, and after a long stay in hospital re- turned on the Acera as a convalescent passenger,

DRAWN REVOLVERS

The ship called at Las Palmas, in the Canaries, the birthplace of Franco's revolt. Mr. Whyard went ashore to see the town, and in a cafe mentioned to the cashier that he had visited Spain.

When he returned to the ship two hours later. Mr. Whyard told me, squad of police, with drawn re-

Dr. Heiser has chased typhus and motorla and plague all over thevolvers, prevented him embarking

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After being searched he appeared before a judge. The interpreter wag a Spaniard who had been detained for five months on a charge of having

world. Now he's America that it has problems far grenter to consider thin epidemics, And he's telling the middle and old- age groups that while micro-organ-served with the British Red Cross in Iams have been licked, nothing has Government Spain, and who had been so badly beaten up that he could been done to protect them from 0.

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Mr. Whyard was informed that the Spanish Government visu on his WARNS OLD PEOPLE

passport and various passes he had "AL Inst the gates have been kept as souvenirs, had convinced the opened and we are slowly discov-authorities that he was a spy. ering that a great percentage of our oldsters are digging their graves with ments before and after leaving Spain. their teeth," he said. "I don't think He demanded to see the British Con- there's any question but that over-sul. He was not allowed to do so. eating is the greatest national crime to-diny. We continue to think in terms of ples and biscuits mother used to make and forget that most of the middle and old age allments pre born of stomachs that are too full."

The doctor has no patience with dietary fads. Eating habits must be established during youth, and the whole problem is not only one of research, but of education, he argues.

Scientists have to help school tea- chers and parents. The scientists should develop things like a good

palatable alfalfa solad.

"What?"

He gave an account of his move-

After interrogation by other off- clols, he was taken before a military tribunal and asked where he had case with which left the attucho he had landed, and who were his ac complicer. But he had not landed with a case.

Then he was told that his British passport was not genuine, and was accused of being

Government officer.

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Finally he was told that he would be shot, und was locked In a cell outside which sat two armed polier. Throughout the night the guard took great pleasure in conveying to him. by testures the

the agonies of execution. He managed, unseen by them, to scribble

to the British messages Consul on pieces of cigarette carton. threw them through the win- dow, but they were never delivered.

and

At 10 am, he was chained and

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"That's right," said the doctor, “a good palatable alfalfa salad. I just returned from Africa and there I found during research in leprosy that driven away in a car along a lonely alfalfa salads provide certain iner-rat

road. They reached

groun of ganio- salts-necessary to human well-buildings surrounded by a double being.

Dieticians should devise wall on which were lonk-out posts. some way of making this food palu- table and we'd have a great many more healthier and happier people." Dr. Helser is serious. Ile pointed out that English physicians h Africa and India have proved that diseaseS of old age may be cured by correct dlets.

Several times, as they neared the prison, ic car was stopped by soldiers with fixed bayonets who of the demanded the credentials senior offleer in the car.

Mr. Whyard was dragged out of the car and his manacles were re- moved. Then his hand was knocked up to the Fascist salute, and one of the guards made gesture of pulling

"We eat three times as much as we should. A little restraint and a a. tringer. balanced diet would bring health to countless alling Americans."

"SIR,

HE IS

PREFERS

BUT

"MR"

scholar and the man of affairs work- ing in the same field, but also be- Iween the workers in different delds. Jetter are:

"I have long deplored the com- "The demands both for new know-purative scarcity of university gradu- ledge and for new recruits made by

ates in the highest posts of the modern industry on the scientific administrative and managerial sides departments of universities are the of industry." The success of univer- creaming year by year, and sineo the cost of maintaining great inbornsity graduates in the Civil Services suggests that their scarcity in in- tories is out of all proportion to the dustry must be partly due to the cost of higher education and re- failure of employers to search in non-telentifle' subjects, I the qualitles which have been impressed by the strain education fosters in a young man or which must thus be imposed upon woman; but my own experience con- university finance,

vinces me that it is also partly due who lives in Australia, does not want the title to which "It seems to me, therefore, to be to the gulf which at present exists he has succeeded on the death of his nephew, Sir my duty to consider whether I could between nendemic studies and. prac- do anything to help those branches tical affairs.”

of selence in which, as an Indus- trialist, I am most directly concern-

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appreciate

university

Eighty-five-year-old Sir George Cecil Morris, Bart.,

Tankerville Armine Robert Morris, formerly of Sketty Lord Nuffield suggests that the Park Hall, Swansea. ed; and it was naturally my wish to part of his gift devoted to the col- do it in that university in which 11ege should be put under the general

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supervision

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He is become the head of one of special bodiy of the oldest and wealthiest families in to. "I have been wondering during the trustees. He suggests that he should West Wales, bat does not wish to be

nominate as trustees some of the

RUBBER TRUNCHEON.

His clothes were taken from him and he was given rope sandals and old rags.

to For six hours he was made sland at attention in the centre ut a cobbled courtyard beneath a giur- ing sun. Every time he moved fraction he was beaten across hend or shing with a long rubber truncheon.

the

Next phase of his torture was to make him carry heavy stones until he almost collapsed.

learn!

From fellow prisoners he that more than 200 bad already

feed the firing squad that year in the prison, and that those who were dead were deemned luckier than those who still lived to be tortured.

"I won't take the fille unless I have morning.

Mr. T. Byng Morris, à cousin of Sir

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a

week ago), said that no morey estale goes, with the title.

or

past year whether there is any way lay members of the existing Nuffield burdened with the responsibilities of Tankerville Morris (who died

to bridge the separation between the theoretical students of contemporary civilisation and the men responsible for carrying it out; between

en the economist, the political theorist, the student of government and adminis- tration, on the one hand, and on the other hand the business mun, the politician, the Civil Servant and the Iocal government official, not to mention the ordinary everyday mun

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Bottle Carrier Has Long Count

such a position.

He prefers gordening.

The estate, approximately 3,000 Speaking in his garden at Monavale, near Sydney, as he rested from tend-cres, at Sketty and Clyne, passos to

Sir Tankerville Morris's four sisters- ing his vegetables, he recalled that he Mrs. C. Mison, of Northam, North has Jud an exclting life and has Devon; Mix. Vailerio Bowie, of Edin- known poverty and said that he now burgh; Mrs. Charles Bruce, of New wants quiet and to be left alone bury; and Airs. W. E. Yockney, of

Reading. with his vegetables and gardenlog.

RAN AWAY FROM TITLES

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come

Cleveland. George M. McKay, 63-year-old driver for a soft drinics concern, is retiring offer: 27 years' ‚work for the same company. He estimates that "I don't want the title." he said, since 1910, when he began deliver and hope that nobody ing bolled drinks in a two-cylinder pestering me about it." automobile truck, he hus carried

"I ran away from titles 50 years ago. Since then I have sold fish, dabbled in dairy produce, grown vegetables, and kept an hotel.

"I came to

with my Australia brother John.

We had letters to the Governor-General.

"I have, recordingly, been much more than 8,000,000 cases and 104, Impressed by what I have heard of 000,000 battles of the beverage to

the recent developments in the Uni-the firm's customers.

versity of Modern Studles in which, again as an industrialist, I am most directly interested. What par- ticularly refer to is the procedure of bringing to Oxford experts from the practical field to co-operate in the theoretical study of social (in which terms I should include economic and political) problems,

Greon Lights Synchronised

Salem, Ore. With the new street lighting system

"I opened my hotel in Sydney-and kept it open all night.

"BIT OF A BOHEMIAN"

"I should like to see this procedure synchronized, It is possible for motor- " was a bit of a bohemian, you conducted on a larger scale, and Ists traveling at approximately 10 know, and after I started the hotel under conditions which would foster miles per hour to pass entirely busincas co-operation not only between the through Sulem! without stopping, Government House.

wal never

asked to

PLAIN MR. MORRIS

Mr. C. J. C. Wilson, tollettor to the estate, said: "It was under the will of Sir Robert Morris, brother of Sir George. Cell Morris, that the estate passed to Sir Tankerville, and after his death to his sister,

During the night they learnt that one of them was to be shot in the "They were all shaking my hand. There was no commiseration, but rather congratulation," Mr. Whyard recalled,

Meals conalsted of a thin cup of coffee at 0 a.m., a small bread roll find, a bowl of bean soup at noon, and a

a pannikin of vermicelli water

at 8 pm.

On this meagre dlet prisoners hud to labour twelve hours a day.

"At the end of the day they were almost too weak to move," said Mr. Whyard. "Their eyes burned like con in their thin faces, and with their shaven heads, gave them al- mort a demoniacal look.

"Some of them had been in this living hell for over a year, but they still possessed, magnificent courage behind their scars."

Two days later come a surprise visit from the British Consul. AL-

"It is simply a question of Sir though officials had dented the arrest George Cecil Morris deciding whether of Mr. Whyard, the Consul discover- be wishes to use the title or to remnined where he was Imprisoned. He known as plains Mr. Morris. If he had learned by chance of the trial.

Next day Mr. Whyurd was releas had a son, the son would, of course, succeed to the baronetcy eventually.ed, and after being kept under strict 1 learn,

however, that the new surveillance for two days was placed barunet's only son died a year ago, on a slily bound for England.

"It was so terrible that it all seems but that he has a married daughter."

like a horrible dream now," he The Morris family have been large added, "except when I look at the landowners for centuries, and prac- scars on my unkles caused by the leg feally all the western section of Irons we had to wear night and day, Swanson is bulli on their land.

And then I know that. It was real."

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