The week has been-remarkable-for some extraordinarily getiefotis benefactions. 'On Monday
it was announced that the Rockefeller Foundation had offered to Cambridge University the sum of £700,000 on condition that the University found a fUrther sum of £229,000. The self- sacrifice of Cambridge men is indeed to be put to the test ; but the Rockefeller Foundation never gives money unless the recipient is prepared to satisfy financial tests of Worthiness. The Rockefeller Board, however, apart from the task now proposed to Cambridge, is evidently convinced that Cambridge is the most suitable seat of learning to be entrusted with this princely sum. The Foun- dation works for the good of humanity, and it evidently recognizes in Cambridge one of the most accomplished and noblest schools of science in the world. On Wednes- day it became known that Lord Woolavington had given £50,000 for the restoration of the nave of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and £125,000 to Middlesex Hospital in order that a wing may be built for 'paying Patients of moderate means. We have often pointed out that the best medical services in the Kingdom are at the dis- posal of the rich and the poor, but are often inaccessible to the class between. Lord Woolavington has shown great discrimination. • *
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