'On. behalf of, the special fund for {increasing the ancial resources of 'Oxford "University" the Chancellor (Viscount Halifax) end the "Viee-Chancellor (Dr, A. D. Lindsay) make observations which have a general bearing on' University education in Institutions other than Oxford's. and countries outside the British Isles, 'The University has a. most Important rols to play in' developing the right spirit of research for application to the problems now besetting the world HHo-day. The contributions which science makes'to the advancement of Industry, commerce and public health receive inspiration and reinforcement from. the University "laboratories. That is not the only form of research: in the University the mind of the scholar, the objective study to which the true. student of affairs should devote himself all the more freely in an academic setting, should manifest. ly prove of great value to the thought of the day, in creation of that sane public opinion on which sage states manship hopes to depend. On a concrete problem Lord Hailfex is reported in the cables to have referred In another pronouncement to the prevalent notion in some countries present inquietude than by Independ-tent and dispassionate appraisement of current tendencies and policies. There the University can perform admirable functions, not necessarily by propounding its own solutions or remedies, but by so training the processes of thought and learning that the products of its schools are able eventually, on emergence into the larger arena outside, to make an effective. uso. of. the opportunities given them for strengthening the re-ures of civilization and restoring humanity to the path from which it has been forcibly diverted by desper~ ig repudiation of the democratic faith.
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