KEBLE COLLEGE WAR MEMORIAL. [To THE EDITOR or THE "
SeecTATort."J
Sre,—An effort is being made by Keble College to raise a Was. Memorial Endowment Fund, and an appeal for this purpose is being sent out to past and preaent members of the College. We shall be greatly indebted to you if you will, by the insertion of this letter in your columns, make the issue of this appeal known not only to those of our members whom letters may fail to reach, and to other friends of the College, but also to all who are interested in the work of the Church and the cause of education. Copies of the appeal and of the College Roll of Service may be obtained from the Bursar, Kettle College, Oxford. The objects which we have in view are the erection of a simple memorial in the College Chapel to those who have fallen, the making good of the heavy financial loss which, in the absence of such endowments as other Colleges possess, the College has suffered in the past three years, and the provision now of such a permanent endowment as will secure that after the war the College may resume its normal life with renewed energy and with better equipment for carrying on its work. The best evidence of the value to Church and State of the work done by the College during its fifty years' existence is to be found in the lives of Keble men. No service that it has rendered to the commonwealth has been more noteworthy than its service in preparation for and during the present war. From 1900 to 1911 Keble led the way in military training in the University, with the result that in September, 1914, it had a greater number of men already recommended for immediate commissions by the University authorities than had any other College. Our list of distinctions is a long one, and more than one hundred out of a roll of seven hundred and fifty have laid down their lives.—I am, Sir, Ac., WALTER Lome, Warden.
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