A Chair of Peace at Oxford In Congregation on Tuesday
Oxford University accepted 'yet another important benefaction. Mr. Montague Burton, of Harrogate, offered £1,320 a year for seven -years—with the prospect of a permanent endowment after that period—to found a Chair of International Relations. The Warden of New College, in moving the decree, submitted that, as Mr. Burton desired, Lord Cecil and Professor. Gilbert. Murray should be among the board of electors, and that the motive of the founder, ." the furtherance of international peace in accordance with the ideals of the Covenant of the League of Nations," could. hardly be said to introduce any element of politics or controversy. This Professorship is an excellent augury. Once more Oxford appears not as the home of lost causes but rather as a microcosm of the world in which we live.
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