15 MARCH 1902, Page 3

Mr. Asquith attended t; lie annual Oxford meeting, held last

Saturday at Balliol, on behalf of Toynbee Hall, and paid a well-deserved tribute to th. s exertions of the Warden. Canon Barnett, said Mr. Asquith, was the real author and originator of this great social moveme at. "For twenty-five years, to his own personal knowledge, a gainert many disappointments, in face of scepticism, criticism., and sometimes of open hostility, his heart had never failed, lais courage had always been clear and alert, and he had brought to bear upon a task of infinite difficulty and magnitude wh, tt was so uncommon in persons possessed by reforming enthusiasm, an almost unfailing sobriety and sanity of judgms mt."