ABSTRACT
The object of the movement which was championed by Mr. Gell at Cambridge is to endeavor to bring the direct influence of young University men of education and the leisure to bear upon the lives of the poor in the East of London. The originator of the scheme is the Rev. S. A. Barnett of St. Jude’s, Whitechapel. There is plenty of work that such a scheme might do in East London; though if they look around on other parts of the Metropolis they will find that the conditions they deplore exist elsewhere as well. The movement, however, if it would succeed, must justify its existence by what it does, and its best justification will be found when it can show that it supplies some public need which would not be supplied, or would only be inadequately supplied, without it.
