It is announced that Frances Lady Warwick has offered Easton
Lodge, the home of the Maynard family in Essex, to house an International Labour University. We cannot say exactly what this may mean. Possibly it is no more than an answer to the Philip Stott College, where men can get admirable lectures on economics and may be certain that the teaching will not be Socialistic. A sectional University is a contradiction in terms. The Trades Union Congress will make a great mistake if they try to set up a "class" University at a time when it is less difficult than ever for those whose education was begun at the expense of the State to go on to a real University, old or new. We cannot believe that any such plan would be approved by, say, the Workers' Educational Association or any of those who have tried to put the study of the humanities within the reach of wage-earners. The Trade Unions have done less than they might have for education, and we trust that if they are now awakened, they will not make a false move, seeking after truth and knowledge but hampering their search with the worst of all impediments, prejudice.
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