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AN anonymous Frenchman has given £1,250,000 to the University of Oxford for the foundation at once of a new Tesidential college, with the ordinary status of an Oxford college. Its name is to be St. Anthony's ; and its head is to be called the 'warden'. It will start with seven or eight fellows and about fifty graduate and undergraduate members. It will be governed at first by the warden and fellows in conjunction with a St. Anthony Foundation, called into existence recently to carry out the benefactor's wishes. It will be accommodateci in the first large house with grounds that can be secured in the vicinity of the University, so that this generous new venture may become visible in the life-time of its founder. He himself has little connexion with England and none with Oxford. His name, if disclosed, would convey nothing to the academic World ; but, like Cecil Rhodes, he has admired Oxford men in positions of responsibility all over the world, and has become convinced that the British system of education has promoted initiative and strengthened the moral qualities of students better than any other. Again, like Rhodes, he is anxious that men from overseas should go to Oxford. He has asked, therefore, that in the new St. Anthony's College a substantial proportion of the places available should be kept for qualified graduates from French universities. To encourage undergraduate members to come from France in far greater numbers in the future than they have done hitherto, he has offered a further £250,000 to be divided among any existing Oxford colleges that propose to build additional sets of rooms for their men, provided that in these new sets one third of the places are kept for Frenchmen.
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St. Anthony's College, Oxford. Nature 162, 482 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162482b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162482b0