One of the most hopeful of the signs of the
times, the efforts of the Universities to take part in improving the relations between the educated and the poorest of the poor in East London, was illustrated last Saturday by the opening of the Oxford Hall, at the rear of the University Club, Bethnal Green. The Oxford House was established three years ago, and consists of four Working Men's Clubs, the main object of which is to provide a centre of religious, social, and educational work in the East of London. The Oxford House is presided over by the Rev. H. H. Henson, of All Souls' College, Oxford, and the Oxford Hall has now been added for the purpose of social gatherings and recreation. It was opened on Saturday by the Archbishop
of Canterbury, who was received by the Warden of Keble College (the Rev. E. S. Talbot), Lord Strafford, Lord Norton, Sir William Anson, Sir John Mowbray, and others of the Oxford Committee. Dr. Walsham How, the Bishop-Designate of Wake- field (the Bishop of Bedford till he was nominated to the See of Wakefield) took part in the proceedings, and regretted his own transfer from the field of this noble Oxford movement in- tended to join together the East and West Ends of London, to a different field of labour in the North. But he will probably find that the very same work has to be done in the North which he has been doing so nobly in the East End of London.
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