Lord Nuffield's New Benefaction Lord Nuffield's latest gift to the
University of Oxford is a mark not only of its donor's munificence but of his insight into the needs and functions of the University at the present time. Apart from Ltoo,000 for the erection and equipment of a new laboratory of physical chemistry, and £200,000 for hospital buildings to serve the medical research scheme he endowed last year, Lord Nuffield this week has given a trust- fund of L9oo,000, together with a site valued at kroo,000, to build and endow a graduate college for the study of the social sciences. The prime object of his donation is that men of learning and men of practical affairs should collaborate in that study ; thus the society will consist both of residential members, engaged in research, in graduate teaching, and in University teaching, and of members who, while engaged in practical life outside the University, will be required to collaborate in the work of the college. Such an institution is capable of immensely productive results to the nation as well as the university, and the trust Lord Nuffield has established will at length enable the University itself, apart from the colleges, to direct research in these subjects. It is a sign of Lord Nuffield's love for the city as well as the University that in choosing the site he has provided an opportunity of beautifying the wretched approaches to Oxford.
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