The papers of Monday print an appeal for funds from
Lord Rayleigh, the Chancellor of Cambridge University. Lord Rayleigh succeeded the late Duke of Devonshire as president of the Cambridge University Association, which was formed to inerease the endowments of the University. In a letter from the Duke of Devonshire published in
February, 1907, the needs of the University were estimated at nearly a million and a half. The generosity of private personshand the City Companies has enabled the Association to transfer to the University sums amounting to about £139,000. A small Committee of Cambridge men has lately been constituted in London to help the Association, and the present Duke of Devonshire has become its vice-chairman. Lord Rayleigh states the immediate objects of the Association and the London Committee as follows :—(1) The completion of the fund for the School of Agriculture; (2) the completion of the fund for building the new museum of archaeology and ethnology ; (3) the adequate endowment of modern languages. We hope the appeal will be responded to generously. The need for money in the teaching of modern languages is well illustrated by the absence at Cambridge of any professorship in European languages of to-day.
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