ADDRESS 



BY 



Professor LAWRENCE CRAWFORD, 

 M.A., D.Sc, E.R.S.i:. 



PKESIUENT 



UNIVERSITIES. 



Speaking in London on May 5- IQES. Eorcl RoM-bcrv said: 

 " The war nmst have a particularly disastrous ettect on Lniver- 

 sitv teaching At the end of it all the combatants would become 



xLusted for an indefinite tin.e. and those who ^-P-^ to receive 

 from the Government some bounteous endounnent m soine pa a- 

 tial hall must adjourn those expectations mdehmteb.-. From the 

 chapter of national finance laid before tliem the da> betoie he 

 saw no prospect of the Government's laying out money on such 

 a luxury as a University for a considerable tune to ^^n^. J^^' 

 did he suppose that the Government would have the time o ne 

 disposition so long as the war lasted, to legislate m any ^^a^ to 



leh benefit. The conclusion, to his mind not wholly devoid of 

 consolation, was that they would be thrown on their own ene.gKs 



