Mr. Asquith, who was the principal guest at a dinner
given by the chairman of the City of London School Committee on Friday week, acknowledged in feeling terms the compliment paid him by the Court of Common Council in founding a scholarship of £100 a year to be known as "the City of London Asquith Scholarship" to commemorate his Premier- ship. He declared that but for such benefactions it would not have been possible for men like himself, born in a bumble station in life and not endowed with this world's goods, to have pursued the studies begun at school. Referring to his old Head-Master, Dr. Edwin Abbott, he described him as a scholar of the finest type, who combined with great learning "a vivid interest in the affairs of mankind and in everything that concerned the boys who came under his charge."
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