Close upon the celebrations of the sixth centenary of Oriel
have followed like celebrations at Cambridge where Clare has reached the same venerable age. We offer our congratulations and good wishes to both Colleges and to the Universities which they adorn. Outwardly both are visible architectural delights. Both have kept the lamp of learning bright through the centuries. Both have deserved well of their country by sending forth a tale of men to serve God in Church and State with distinction, and let us not forget the many who without distinction or public fame have done their duty the better for their training there. Do not these commemorations of pious benefactors stir a response among those in Great Britain who to-day could endow learning at Oxford and Cambridge ? Last month we saw the list of nominations to the Commonwealth Scholarships of the munificent Harkness Foundation, due to American enlightenment and generosity towards us. Pride in our old foundations is mixed with a little shame when we realize how much our old Universities and most of their Colleges still subsist on benefactions that date from six centuries or so ago.
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