Two interesting pieces ,of University intelligence appeared in Thursday's Times.
One relates to the proposed professor- ship of town-planning at London University, an idea which originated with Mr. John Burns, who suggested some time ago that some wealthy person should endow such a chair, and has since been urged by Mr. Herbert Warren, of the Garden City Association. A. strong committee is now been formed to further the scheme, which is supported by Sir Philip Magnus, M.P. for London University, Sir Henry Mien, the Principal, and Sir Aston Webb, B.A. Instruction is already given in this subject at the Liverpool and Birmingham Universities, and it is strongly felt that students of architecture or surveying in London should enjoy similar facilities. The other announcement relates to the offer of Mr. Walter Morrison, M.A., of Balliol College, of a sum of £10,000 to form the nucleus of a Pension Fund for Professors of the Uni- versity of Oxford. The need of such a fund has long been recognized, and Mr. Morrison's gift will, we hope, provoke a generous emulation amongst other loyal sons of Oxford. Of late years the bulk of University bequests has been devoted to assisting students, but a well-administered pension fund is equally an instrument of efficiency.
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