Last Saturday the new buildings were opened at Ruskin College,
Oxford. Dr. Gilbert Slater, the Principal, said that the college authorities hoped henceforth to join hands with the organized workers of Oxford, and to get into closer touch with the Labour movement throughout the country. Similarly they were already in closer correspondence with the organizers of Labour abroad. The question of providing opportunities for working women to reside and study in Oxford was beint
actively considered. The new buildings provide rooms for fifty students, and are the first instalment of buildings that will eventually provide for a hundred. A feature of the buildings is a hall in memory of Mr. C. S. Buxton, who worked so unsparingly and unselfishly to save the college at a crisis in its existence. It is to be hoped that in future the college will abide by its proper function, which is to study, not to preach Socialism. If it does there will be no recurrence of the superfluous hostility to the educational system of the rest of Oxford, or of internal strikes and revolutions. If only it keeps on the right lines Ruskin College has got a genuinely useful part to play.
Previous page
