ABSTRACT

Residents look forward with great pleasure to the day when there will be sitting room for all at meals, an entrance-hall large enough to allow of one person passing another, a quiet room for writing and working, and perhaps above all, a room, or rooms, for classes, meetings and interviews, which have hitherto been held in most unexpected and unsuitable places. It is expected that 17 or 18 residents will be accommodated when all the rooms are ready for use, the present number being 14. The need of help from outside increases proportionately with the increase of residents. Among other things which people learn in Oxford, one is the habit of looking on life with far-reaching eyes, with hearts open to the needs of others in less happy parts of Society. Old Students have already done good work among the poor in East and South London, but there are ambitions stirring amongst people.