13 MARCH 1909, Page 2

The letter on "Indian Anarchism in England" published in the

Times of February 20th, 1909, in which the writer, Mr. Krishnavarma, the present editor of the Indian Sociologist, defended resort to political murder, has had a, very natural and proper sequel. Mr. Krishnavarma, who is an M.A. of Banjo' College, endowed a Herbert Spencer lectureship at Oxford in 1904, and a petition signed by a hundred and nine members of Convocation, including the Warden of All Souls, the Master o Balliol, the President of Trinity, the Provost of Worcester, the Rector of Exeter, and Professors Dicey, Firth, and Oman, has been addressed to the Hebdomadal Council asking that the lectureship may be abolished and the money returned to its founder. That is the right course. Oxford cannot accept aid from such a source.