The Daily Mail of Wednesday, under the beading "Oxford's Necessity,"
calls attention to the financial needs of the University, and indirectly to a scheme for raising a quarter of a million of money for the discharge of its more pressing duties. With this work before her, Oxford is to be congratulated most heartily on having obtained as her head a man so active and so full of resource, and also one enjoying so large a share of public confidence, as Lord Curzon. We feel sure that when he turns his attention to the practical work of raising the sum required, he will be able to tap sources of financial energy which up till now have not been brought under contribution. The proposal mentioned by the Daily Mail is to devote 2100,000 to the needs of science, £50,000 to additional buildings, £50,000 to the Bodleian, and 250,000 to the teaching of modern languages and history. We wish all possible success to the effort to raise the money. If care is taken to bring the appeal under the notice of every man now living who, whether he took his degree or not, or kept his name on the books, passed some period of his youth at Oxford, its success will be assured. If every man in such a position could be induced to give on an average £10 a year for five years, the money would he found several times over.
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