Education: Oxford in Cambridge

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Announced, last week, was an anonymous gift of $3,000,000 to Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

The plan: to build in Harvard an "inner college," housing about 300 students from all four classes; to give these students the mutual social contacts of the small college while still offering them the intellectual advantage of the large university.

The plan was suggested by the Student Council Committee of 1926. The students who will be admitted will be selected to represent as many different types and interests as possible. They will attend the regular University classes. From the University as heretofore they will receive their degrees. The "inner college" will therefore merely stress the contacts inter se which students at large universities do not often enjoy.

Eventually Harvard will probably have several "inner colleges." Then in Cambridge, Mass., will have risen an institution similar to Oxford University in England.