Mr. A. P. Herbert raises a nice question when he
calls on the President of the Board of Trade to refuse a licence to a company bearing the name Oxford Group (formed for the purpose of holding any moneys given or bequeathed to the Group Movement). The names of the two older uni- versities have their value as assets, and if Oxford marmalade and Cambridge sausages, it may be contended, why not an Oxford Group? But the senior burgess for Oxford University would no doubt have the support of the majority of his constituents in deprecating the use of the university's name for its publicity value by a movement which has no special association with Oxford, and whose headquarters, so far as it has any, appear to be in London. But it is one thing to deprecate the use of the style and title " Oxford " and another to prohibit it. The Group Movement itself might perhaps consider how far the use of the word squares completely with its tenets of absolute honesty.
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