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 O F THE 
 UN IVER5ITY 
 or ILLINOIS
 
 SPEECHES 
 
 i THE WARDEN OF KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD, 
 
 THE EARL BEAUCHAMP, 
 
 AT THE LATINO OP 
 
 3.. 
 
 THE FOUNDATION STONE 
 
 THE COLLEGE CHAPEL 
 
 WILLIAM GIBBS, ESQ., ON ST. MARK'S DAY, 1873. 
 
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 OXFORD: 
 J VINCENT, 90, niGH STREET. 
 
 MDCCCtXXni.
 
 KEBLE COLLEGE EXTENSION FUND. 
 
 With a view to carrying out at once some 
 of tlie objects for wliicli the Warden appealed 
 in the following Speech, the Warden and Council 
 have opened a " Keble College Extension Fund." 
 They propose to raise a sum of ^15,000, to 
 erect Buildings for 36 additional Students, and a 
 suitable House for the Warden. 
 
 Subscriptions for this Fund are received 
 by the Bursar, Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. W. E. 
 Sackville West, Keble College, Oxford, by the 
 Warden, any Member of Council, or any of the 
 Tutors, or may be paid direct to the Fund at 
 either of the undermentioned Banks — > 
 
 MESSRS. BERRIES, FARQUBAR & CO., 
 16, St. James Street, London, S.W. 
 
 MESSRS. PARSONS, TBOMSON & CO., 
 Old Bank, Oxford.

 
 HEADS OF THE WARDEN'S SPEECH. 
 
 1. Preliminary — Purpose chiefly to sketch fortunes of the 
 
 College since Opening in 1870 ... 7 
 
 2. The Statute of New Foundations, 1870. Admission of 
 
 the College to relations with the University . . 8 
 
 3. Difficulties in the Work of the College, how overcome — 9 
 
 4. (a) Finance . i .... 10 
 
 5. (b) Staff ...... 11 
 
 6. (c) Undergraduates ..... 13 
 
 7. (d) Fulfilment of Special Objects of the College — 
 
 (i.) Economical Education . . . 16 
 
 (ii.) Eeligious Education ... 16 
 
 8. Present Wants of the College — 
 
 (i.) College Extension for larger numbers . 191 
 
 (ii.) Public Buildings .... 20 
 
 Hall 
 Library 
 Warden's Lodge 
 
 (Mr. Gribbs' Example) 
 (iii) Scholarships .... 22 
 
 8. Conclusion ...... 2^
 
 SPEECHES. 
 
 The Warden of Keble College said,— I am S^Jp^^^^^- 
 asked to address to you a few words before we break tunes'^ome coi' 
 up to-day. The fact that I am called upon to do so ^^^'i^Zo^^'"" 
 in this way, without a meeting and other speakers, 
 reminds me of the difference between this present 
 occasion and the last when I spoke in the present 
 Quadrangle in the year 1870. At that time we 
 were all of us who were then gathered together 
 strangers I may say in this place. Now you come 
 here as our guests, and we welcome you to that 
 which is to many of us a well-loved home. (Hear, 
 hear, and applause.) Then, all that belonged to 
 this place was in the future, all was a matter of 
 hope, and although the gathering of that day was 
 certainly a very bright augury for the future, yet 
 in the future everything still remained. But now, 
 although we look forward to the future, and hope 
 for this College from the future much more than the 
 past has brought, yet there is also a past behind 
 us and a present in which we are — a past and a 
 present of which the importance is the greater 
 when we remember that upon it, and partak- 
 ing of its character for good or evil, the future of 
 the College must be built. (Hear, hear.) And 
 it was thought that on this occasion it would 
 be well if T rose to give to you some account
 
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 of what we have done in this place, and what we I 
 are doing at the present moment. You will for-] 
 give me then, if, on the part of the College, I am' 
 to-day thoroughly egotistical, that is to say, if I 
 occupy your time entirely with a statement of our 
 own concerns. 
 l/k^Vo'^l! First, going back to that year 1870, one 
 
 ^sdon^^of tha great anxiety which was before us was the ques- 
 f^rJ^h "to tion of the relation of the College to the Univer- 
 univereity. gj^^^ gy the favour of her Majesty and her 
 advisers, we had received a Royal Charter, which 
 gave us our name, and in a sense, our position as 
 Keble College ; but what view the University 
 would take of our position — what relation we 
 should bear to the University — was still a matter 
 entirely in suspense. In the October Term which 
 followed the gathering in this place that question 
 was set at rest by what is called the Statute for the 
 Admission of New Foundations. I will not go now 
 into a technical matter, but T will say just this, 
 that I think by the Statute of New Foundations the 
 question of the relation of this place and other 
 places which may hereafter be built with regard 
 to the University was equitably settled. That 
 statute, practically, admits all members of this 
 College to the same position, and the same rights 
 in Oxford, as the members of all other Colleges, 
 and 1 defy any stranger who comes into Oxford 
 and acquires even a very fair acquaintance with 
 her concerns, to discover any difference between 
 Keble College and its members, and other Colleges
 
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 and their members. (Hear, hear.) Such differ- 
 ences as there are relating to the Headship I maj' 
 be allowed to pass over, simply saying that the 
 present Head of Keble College has found no serious 
 difficulty accruing to him from them. (Hear, 
 hear, and laughter.) That statute was arrived at 
 after a certain amount of debate and contest in the 
 University, and to which I just allude not, believe 
 me, with a view of dwelling on the opposition, 
 because I think that the opposition was exaggerated 
 in the country, but rather because I wish to refer 
 to the very kind and generous spirit with which the 
 statute so introduced was received in the Univer- 
 sity. (Hear, hear.) It was not only supported 
 by those whom I may call the friends of the College, 
 but it was supported by the great bulk of the 
 Liberal party in the University, which, if I may 
 be allowed for a moment to use party terras, was 
 true to the Liberal principle that all persons 
 should be allowed to carry out their views without 
 hindrance, so long as those views are not detri- 
 mental to the community at large. (Hear, hear.) 
 I would add that since that time this conduct has 
 been amply borne out by the social courtesies 
 which have been in all ways extended to us. 
 
 This having been done, and the College hav- §3.Pourdifficni- 
 ing been connected with the University, we began, u"c''oUe|r-how 
 in October Term, 1870, our quiet and ordinary (irSn^ 
 course of life in this place ; and when I come to (*} UnLgradu- 
 speak of the time which has passed between then (d)'F°ufiiment of 
 and now, it seems to me that perhaps I had better oFthfc^iiego!*
 
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 put before you four difficulties or dangers which 
 the friends of the College then had to fear, and 
 say a word or two respecting the way in which 
 they have been met. The first question was 
 whether the College would pay its way and be self- 
 supporting; the second whether it could obtain 
 persons of sufficient abihty and good-will to work 
 as its staff of Tutors ; thirdly, there was the ques- 
 tion, and a very important one, whether we could 
 get men to fill the College ; and fourthly, there 
 was the question whether it could in any degree 
 carry out the special objects for which it had been 
 built. 
 § 4. o. Finance Taking the first of these, the one of Finance, 
 
 whether the College could be self-supporting and 
 pay its way, I think in a very few words I can 
 show you the proof of that. It was thought right 
 by the Very wise and careful persons who were 
 engaged in building the College and setting it on 
 foot, to organise a Sustentation Fund, and the 
 object was that the charges having been calcu- 
 lated to carry on the College when filled with 100 
 members, it was naturally supposed that with 30 
 members to start with there would be a deficit 
 and a loss. But from that Sustentation Fund not 
 a penny, I believe, has ever been drawn, and the 
 money which was then collected for that purpose 
 now stands before you, by the consent of its givers, 
 in the shape of bricks and mortar.* (Hear, hear.) 
 
 * Eeferring to a block of Buildings to contain the 
 whole establishment of Servants, with Clock Tower annexed.
 
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 There was in the first year a very slight and 
 trifling deficit, but in the second year, with larger 
 numbers, it was replaced, and since then I might 
 sum up all financial statements with regard to the 
 College by saying that it has been a thoroughly 
 self-supporting institution, working with a balance. 
 We started with a charge of £81 upon every 
 member of the College, and I think I may say 
 that charge has been practically lowered since we 
 began, for although now it stands at the same 
 figure yet the rise in the price of meat, coals, &c. 
 has been so great, as all who have anything to do 
 with household economy know, that it makes a 
 serious difference in working a place like this, and 
 £81 in 1873 is a very different figure from £81 in 
 1870. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 Passing to the second point, whether we § g ^ ,stafl 
 could obtain persons competent and willing to 
 work as Tutors, I confess that in that I my- 
 self apprehended the very greatest difiiculty. 
 There was a special need in the matter, for 
 if the College was to succeed it was necessary 
 not merely to matriculate a certain number of 
 persons to become members of the University, and 
 then give them some crumbs of education, but to 
 give them a College education of the old kind, 
 with all the range and variety of teaching neces- 
 sary to help them to read for the honour schools 
 and so forth. But although there was thus a 
 
 begun in 1872 and almost finished, at a cost of £3,011, 
 mainly supplied from the Sustentation Fund.
 
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 special need for a thoroughly efficient staff, there 
 was and is a special difficulty in the way. I mean 
 that in the ordinary working of other Colleges the 
 income derived from a Tutorship is practically very 
 much increased from the fact that the holdet 
 is also the holder of a Fellowship, therefore the 
 Tutorships of Keble laboured under the great dis- 
 advantage of having no Fellowships to which they 
 could be attached ; and considering that all over 
 Oxford there is a great demand for fit and able 
 men, and outside the University great attractions 
 to draw them away, I think I may say it was a 
 matter for very grave apprehension whether we 
 could get such persons as were needed ; yet by the 
 special blessing of Almighty God we have been 
 able to do so. And may I venture further to 
 flatter myself and the friends of the College, that 
 it is due in part to the principles of the College, 
 and the truth which it represented, that it has been 
 enabled to lay hold on the hearts of the abler and 
 more devout sons of the rising generation ? I have 
 been enabled to gather around me not only a 
 Bursar, whose past experience in other places has 
 enabled him to work this place in the way of 
 which I have already given you some account, 
 but also five Tutors. Of these, three have perhaps 
 been enabled to take their Tutorships owing to 
 their being Fellows of other societies, and on be- 
 half of the College I should like to acknowledge in 
 public the great thanks which are due to the Presi- 
 dent and Fellows of Magdalen College, and the
 
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 Principal and Fellows of Jesus College, for the 
 courtesy and kindness by which they facilitated 
 the arrangements by which those three gentlemen 
 were enabled to join us. Two other gentlemen 
 were found willing to hold Tutorships without the 
 addition of a Fellowship. And of these gentlemen^ 
 although speaking on our own ground and in their 
 presence I must not say much about them, yet I 
 should like to state this : I think I can courageously 
 say that I have a staiF which no College in Oxford, 
 if it happened to possess it, need be ashamed of; and 
 I can say with sincerity that the practical result is 
 that I can answer to every one who asks me the 
 question, that I am prepared to receive in this 
 place young men of whatever ability and whatever 
 promise, because I am sure that by the teaching in 
 this place we can do him justice and make the 
 most of him. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 In the third place, there was the difficulty § e. c undergra. 
 whether we should get men to fill the College. '^"**^^' 
 Would men dare to come to a Society which was 
 yet unformed, and to buildings which had never 
 been filled? Well, in October 1870, 30 gentle- 
 men, whose names and characters will always live 
 in my memory, were brave enough to venture on 
 the task. (Hear, hear.) In October, 1871, the 
 number had risen to 63 ; in October, 1872, to 81 ; 
 and at this moment we have 86 Undergraduate 
 members. But if I say that this is something, 
 then when I add that if the College is to carry out 
 its purpose it must have a high standard in matri-
 
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 culation, and only admit persons fully able to pass 
 the University examinations without difficulty, and 
 that we have acted consistently on this plan, those 
 numbers become a still more significant fact. 
 (Hear, hear.) We have kept so high a standard 
 throughout the matriculation examinations that 
 persons are accusing us of filling the College by 
 competitive examination. I take this opportunity 
 of saying in public and so far as my words can 
 reach, that the College is not filled in that way, 
 but that those parents have the precedence who 
 first enter their sons' names, and who have thus a 
 right to it so long, and only so long, as their sons 
 are competent to avail themseves of the oppor- 
 tunity. (Hear, hear.) In the presence of mem- 
 bers of the College I must not say much about 
 their character or their quality, but I am sure they 
 will forgive me for saying one or two things. In 
 Christmas last, when all the Schools were going 
 on, we had 53 men in the different Schools in the 
 University, and we came out bearing with us 47 
 testamurs. (Hear, hear, and applause.) It is but 
 bare justice to say this — that I believe the Under- 
 graduate members of this College are not behind 
 the Undergraduates of other Colleges in loyalty to 
 the institution to which they belong, and I do not 
 believe that if they were called upon to answer 
 for themselves they would be found to say that 
 they had been entrapped into what they had 
 found to be a delusion. (Hear, and applause.) In 
 these days when importance is attached to a fact 
 
 i
 
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 which ought to be a secondary one, it may be 
 interesting to know that in the summer of last 
 year we won more than one half of our cricket 
 matches with other Colleges, and if I am informed 
 aright by the experts of the character of the 
 Eleven who are to enter the field this year, we 
 are likely to win even a larger number. (Applause.) 
 And I am sure that Colleges crowned with so 
 many laurels of the past as Exeter, St. John's, 
 and New College will forgive me if I allude for 
 one moment to the fact that we have succeeded in 
 passing their boats on the river. (Hear, hear, and 
 laughter.) Coming perhaps to more sober matters, 
 I may mention that a considerable portion of those 
 gentlemen I see behind me have been members of 
 the great public schools of the country. (Hear, 
 hear.) Out of our 86 members, for example, I 
 believe seven came from a single public school — 
 than which I know none more important — I mean 
 Winchester College. (Applause.) I should like 
 again to say, as I have said in other places, and on 
 opportunities when I have been able to make 
 myself heard, that members go from this place to 
 all professions and destinations, contradicting the 
 once prevalent bugbear that this College was to 
 be nothing more than a clerical seminary. 
 
 Lastly, as to the remaining difficulty which §7. <i. special Ob- 
 I have referred to and put before you, namely, ^.'^ Economical 
 whether it was possible, in this day and in this 
 place, to carry out the two especial objects for 
 which the College was founded. Now those two
 
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 especial objects were to give an Economical Educa- 
 tion and a Religious Education. (Hear, hear.) 
 Both were met with what I may call sceptical 
 criticism. We were told it was impossible to 
 attempt either. We were told in the first place 
 that sumptuary laws were proverbially foolish, 
 that it was impossible to resist fashions and 
 habits, that in all Colleges persons would live in 
 accordance with the standard of living dominant 
 in Oxford. Yet I may say we have attempted to 
 frame College rules with a view to a more 
 simple and more economical kind of living here 
 than elsewhere, and I do not believe the members of 
 this College, in whose presence and under whose 
 criticism I speak, regard us as tyrants or despots 
 for having framed those rules. (Hear, hear.) 
 Although, as you will understand, the real 
 reasons for desiring to give economical education 
 do not lie in things of which you would expect to 
 find in the young the most keen perception — 
 although they depend upon an intelligent apprecia- 
 tion of the circumstances of our age — of the great 
 national needs which, as I say, the young will 
 not be the first to perceive — still we do not find it 
 hopeless to get our members to enter with us 
 upon such considerations. 
 ii. Religious Bdu- The ncxt matter — whether we could give a 
 
 special religious character to the College — is 
 delicate ground, and not well suited for speaking 
 of in such a public place as this. Before I say a 
 word or two about it, however, I would remark 
 
 cation .
 
 17 
 
 that I have no intention to contrast or compare 
 this College with other Colleges or institutions in 
 the University, therefore, in showing what we 
 are trying to do in Keble, I leave out of account 
 altogether whether or how far other Colleges are 
 attempting to do similar work. It is but justice 
 to those who have taken an interest in this place 
 from the outset, to say that we do attempt here to 
 give a religious education — by which I mean that 
 we give religion the place of honour in our work 
 and in our life, that we give our members some- 
 thing like the opportunities which they would 
 have in religious homes, or as members of the 
 congregation of a Church which provided instruc- 
 tion and aflforded religious opportunities complete 
 and thorough — that we recognise religion as an 
 element in the bond which unites us, seniors with 
 seniors, juniors with juniors, and seniors and 
 juniors together, which unites us in one society : — 
 that we look upon religion as a subject which is not 
 a forbidden subject among to us, but upon which we 
 may in aproper place andmanner communicate one 
 with another, and confirm and help one another. 
 And if I may say one word about the character of 
 the College in relation to the Church of England — 
 what we call its Church character — I cannot 
 forget the prediction that it was to be the College 
 of a clique or party. I must say with thankful, 
 ness that looking back I believe we have found it 
 possible, or at least in some measure possible, to 
 realise what we set before ourselves. We ventured
 
 18 
 
 to believe, and I think we have found it true, that 
 if our work, by God's help, was hearty and real, 
 if it were seen to be based on clear and Catholic 
 principles, and that we are not ashamed to avow 
 them ; — if it were seen that we were striving to 
 give a proper place to the different sources and 
 parts of our faith, for example, to the authority of 
 the Church and to Holy Scripture — and to recog- 
 nise the comparative importance between principles 
 and details, between inward and spiritual truths 
 of religion and the external accessories by which 
 they are set forth, not neglecting either, but keeping 
 what is secondary secondary, and not allowing it to 
 engross too much space — then, I say, we venture to 
 think, and I believe we have found it true, that if 
 we did so we might appeal successfully to our own 
 members and to the members of the Church at large ; 
 — that we might ask some to bear patiently with the 
 omission of externals which to them are satisfac- 
 tory and agreeable, but which to others among our 
 brethren may appear strange and give pain, — 
 that we might claim from others, on the other hand^ 
 not to take objection to things which they perhaps 
 do not enter into or understand, but which are 
 dear to the hearts of some of their fellows. In 
 this way I believe we have been able in some 
 measure to carr}'^ all along together in the spirit of 
 hearty, united religious life, already loyal members 
 of our mother Church of England, and ready to 
 go out and further God's honour in the offices of 
 the Church, or in the ordinary work of citizens of 
 the State-
 
 19 
 
 I have kept the meeting already, perhaps, too ^f thrcoUege^'* 
 long-(hear, hear)-but I think I have said all ^^^^ 
 that I meant to say, having touched, I believe, on '^'i^^erB. 
 the more important points with regard to the past 
 of the College. With regard to its future I have 
 not very much to which to ask your attention. 
 But I must explain that when I spoke of the 
 College as being a thoroughly solvent and self- 
 supporting institution, I did not mean to say we 
 had no further need of the support of English 
 Churchmen. At present its revenues are utterly 
 unassisted by endowments, and there is a want for 
 instance of such buildings as a Common Hall, a 
 Library, Lecture Rooms, &c. With regard to 
 College extension I do not think that is a 
 matter in which the College ought to be ex- 
 pected itself to take the keenest interest. At 
 present we are a very happy and comfortable 
 society. (Hear, hear.) After the long vacation we 
 shall number nearly 100 men, and with that number 
 we shall be happy and content to go on working 
 for many years to come. It rests not with us but 
 with the members of the Church of England at 
 large, to decide whether they wish the College to 
 undertake the additional labour and the additional 
 responsibility — whether from what they have been 
 enabled to learn from experience and information, 
 they acccept the College as an institution which 
 will do more good if its size is larger. 
 (Hear, hear.) It rests with them to decide 
 whether they will press upon the accommodation
 
 20 
 
 for their sons so much that it will be desirable for 
 them to provide the means for enlarging it. That 
 was the footing, soberly and really, of the 
 question of College extension. If English Church- 
 men require any large amount of the article which 
 we are able to supply, I think we may undertake, 
 within limits, to say that we are willing to supply 
 it if the necessary machinery is given, and bricks 
 and mortar are supplied to house their sons. (Hear, 
 hear.) With those remarks I will leave the 
 question of College extension to the public and 
 to English Churchmen, 
 ii. Public Buad- With regard to the public buildings to which 
 
 g*u^ I have alluded, I cannot take so unselfish and dis- 
 
 Warden's interested a line. There is no question but that 
 those who are working here would rather have 
 buildings such as those which are common in 
 Oxford, than such as those which line the other side 
 of the quadrangle, to do their work in.* But the 
 three years work that has been done is quite 
 insufficient in its amount to deserve anything like 
 the encouragement we have already received, and 
 which we are met this day to celebrate. 
 Mr. pibbs' ex- ^^ did not deserve to hear in our second 
 
 ample. ^ong vacation that a gentleman had come forward 
 
 in the simplest manner, oiFering to build a Chapel 
 — (applause) — for us, the very one of all the com- 
 mon buildings which we most desired. Mr. Gibbs 
 
 * Eeferring to the low and ugly line of buildings 
 which contains the temporary Hall and Chapel.
 
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 (applause) has offered to build it in such a way 
 and In such a character that it shall yield to no 
 other in Oxford in point of splendour. (Applause.) 
 I tender thanks to Mr. Gibbs on the part of 
 myself, of all those connected with the government 
 and management of the College, and of every 
 member of it, as well as the thanks of those friends 
 who are met in sympathy. Though the words 
 are insufficient, I tender him our deepest and most 
 heartfelt thanks. (Applause.) I know very well 
 it is not to these thanks that Mr. Gibbs looks 
 most. (Hear, hear.) I will only say further 
 about him that I pray, and I trust many who are 
 present will also pray, not this day only, that in 
 the way Mr. Gibbs looks for his reward he may 
 have it. (Hear, hear.) Well, encouragement of 
 this kind is substantial help which no one can 
 over estimate in conducting the work of a place 
 like this. (Hear, hear.) You must not think 
 me presumptuous or covetous if I say that from 
 time to time we shall be willing to receive further 
 encouragement of this kind. (Applause.) For 
 those benefactors whom Mr. Gibbs may have 
 outstripped (laughter), and whom he may have 
 deprived of the opportunity of carrying out their 
 laudable desires, have still a large sphere in which 
 to exercise their liberality. There are at least 
 two public buildings which benefactors who wish 
 to have individual credit in the College may 
 undertake upon their sole responsibility (laughter 
 and applause), and those persons who in this
 
 domestic nation are fond of domesticity may take 
 compassion upon the Warden (laughter) — though 
 I confess I claim no compassion for my present 
 lodgment (hear, hear) — and build him a very 
 comfortable and substantial house. (Laughter 
 and applause.) Those things on a large scale are 
 open to the public. (Hear, hear.) 
 
 Scholarships. There is a matter which might seem small to 
 
 you, being one of technical detail, but which to me 
 is an important one, and that is the question of 
 Scholarships, to be offered for competition, so that 
 they may be open to men who are capable of doing 
 us thorough credit in University Examinations. 
 We know very well that the number of our Honours 
 in these Examinations will be a test by which we 
 shall be judged : and people will form their opinion 
 in this way, even to an unfair degree, upon the 
 powers of our staff — unfair, I mean, because Tutors 
 cannot make people do more than they are capable 
 of doing. But that test will be applied, and 
 therefore it is most important to the College to be 
 enabled to give open Scholarships, so as to give us 
 a fair share of men capable of gaining distinction 
 in University Examinations. We are giving them 
 this year by a considerable effort, and I hope we 
 shall *not be left unsupported in that particular, 
 but that persons will come forward and give us 
 help on a larger or smaller scale to enable us to 
 
 >. Conclusion, give Scholarships each year. (Hear, hear.) But 
 whatever form of encouragement Churchmen may 
 think it right to give, I may say this, that if the
 
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 College receives it, or indeed whether it receives 
 it or not, we will do our best to go on in what we 
 now believe, the more because we have tried it, to be 
 a practical, reasonable and truly religious under- 
 taking, as it certainly was in its conception and in 
 its original commencement a bold and noble- 
 hearted one. (Applause.) 
 
 Lord Beauchamp then proceeded to address 
 the assembly. He said it would be presumptuous 
 on his part to attempt to add anything to what 
 the Warden had said, but it had been thought 
 that as one who had the welfare of the College 
 deeply at heart from the time when it was first 
 suggested, he should take the opportunity of 
 congratulating the Warden on the success that 
 had attended its opening years and on the 
 care and trouble he had bestowed upon the College, 
 but that he should also, on the part of the Council, 
 repeat what had fallen from the Warden, their 
 sense, their deep appreciation of that most muni- 
 cent act on the part of Mr. Gibbs which had 
 been the means of summoning them there that 
 day. (Hear, hear.) He thought he was not 
 saying anything but the coldest of terms when 
 he said that it was one of the noblest of offerings 
 offered to Almighty God in that or other 
 generations. He hoped it would be deeply 
 cherished in years to come, and that among the 
 roll of benefactors the name of Gibbs would be 
 for generations honoured and cherished in that 
 College. (Applause.) He could not but reflect
 
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 on the very short time that had elapsed since they 
 were summoned to lay the first stone of the 
 College ; he could not but reflect on the shorter 
 time that had elapsed since they met to install 
 the Warden, and he must say nature itself had 
 given them the opportunity of testing the value of 
 the friendship of the friends of the College. They 
 all knew the old fable of the difference between 
 the sun and the wind, which might be summed up 
 In the few words, " never discard your principles." 
 Those who remembered the blazing sun which 
 poured down upon them three years ago, when 
 they met to install the Warden, were struck with 
 the admirable manner in which those who took 
 part in the proceedings stuck to their post, and it 
 seemed that on the present occasion nature had 
 seemed inclined to test whether their fair weather 
 friends would forego the opportunity afforded them 
 of being present.* He recognised many present 
 who were there three years ago, and he hoped he 
 might take it as a favourable augury in the 
 history of the College — that their friendship 
 was not merely a sunshine friendship but that it 
 stood the sterner test of adversity. (Hear, 
 hear.) He must say from experience — and he 
 thought domesticity was a very distinguishing 
 feature in that College — that as long as the finances 
 were conducted with the prudence with which 
 they had been hitherto, and the religious and 
 
 * It was one of the bitterest East winds of the year.
 
 educational teaching conducted in the same 
 admirable manner, so long he thought they might 
 have the sunshine which had shone upon them, 
 and look for a continuance of their prosperity. 
 He could not refrain from remembering, that 
 which they also recollected, the great doubts and 
 difficulties which were suggested in the Council 
 when the foundation of that College was first de- 
 signed. The experiment of endeavouring to substi- 
 tute for the more luxurious habits in other Colleges a 
 more moderate style of living had been more than 
 once tried in Oxford wnth success. It must not 
 be forgotten" that they had taken up the experi- 
 ment and entered into the labours of those who 
 had gone before, and that they thought the 
 experiment might be supplemented by another on 
 a larger scale. From what they had seen they 
 thought the experiment they had endeavoured 
 to make, namely, that of conducting university 
 and academical life in a manner more economically 
 and more frugally than in other Colleges, ought 
 to be tried on a larger scale. He was sanguine 
 enough to hope that their present accommodation 
 might be doubled in size. " Dimidium facti qui 
 bene ccepit habet.'''' But if they had done well they 
 did not think they had done half their work. 
 (Hear, hear.) He spoke at that moment only of 
 the material fabric. There was much to be done, 
 but no doubt if those who perused a report of those 
 proceedings would lay to heart those words which- 
 
 c
 
 had fallen from theWarden,he trusted that what he 
 (Lord Beauchamp) had ventured to hint at would 
 be fulfilled at no distant day, that the munifi- 
 cent example set by Mr. Gibbs would be followed 
 by others, although not on the same large and 
 generous scale. Recurring again to the meetings 
 of the Council, which preceded the formationof 
 the College, he could not forget the circumstances 
 under which it was founded. They made a very 
 bold step indeed when they associated that College 
 with the name of a honoured and typical repre- 
 sentative of Oxford — a typical representative of 
 its highest form of intellectual cultivation which 
 had made the name of Oxford venerated through- 
 out the world, but he thought that in the name 
 they had given it they very much diminished the 
 burden of those who were to adminster the 
 fortunes of that Society. (Hear, hear.) He 
 tendered his hearty thanks to those who took an 
 early part in the foundation of the College. He 
 also tendered his sincere congratulations to the 
 Warden and Staff for having done what was far 
 more difficult than building material walls — 
 raising a moral fabric, a tone and an esprit de corps 
 which reflected the highest credit upon them. 
 (Applause.) He once more congratulated them 
 most heartily on so successful a termination, and 
 he trusted that when they assembled to celebrate 
 the opening of the Chapel they might do so 
 under circumstances as prosperous, or still more
 
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 prosperous, than those on which they had to 
 congratulate themselves upon on that occasion. 
 (Applause.) 
 
 This concluded the proceedings, and the 
 company separated. 
 
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