28 RURAL ECONOMY IN UNIVERSITY 



likely to interfere in any way with the prosperity of that 

 College. 



We have considered several of the phases of the 

 agricultural problem as it affects Oxford, but one and, 

 in some respects, the most important has been left 

 untouched. I refer, of course, to the question of finance. 

 To set up effective teaching, and to provide facilities for 

 research, would necessitate large initial and annual 

 expenditure. This, however, can hardly be regarded 

 as an appropriate occasion on which to discuss financial 

 ways and means ; but if Oxford can furnish proof that 

 the altered conditions created by the generous action 

 of St. John's College have induced her to revise her 

 verdict of 1898, she need not despair of the State and 

 her friends, private and corporate, rallying to her 

 support. 



Oxford : Printed at the Clarendon Press, by HORACE HART, M.A. 



