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Show BIG UNIVERSITIES SEEK ASSISTANCE . t Oxford and Cambridge Apply to Government Gov-ernment for Financial Aid and Commission Com-mission Is Investigating. LONDON, L'cc. 20. O'y the Associated Press.) Oxford and Cambridge univer-sities univer-sities have applied for financial assistance assist-ance from the sta te. The government has responded by appointing a commission commis-sion to inquire into the matter. The chairman of tiie com miss; on is former Premier Herbert H. Asquit.h- There Is no doubt in the public mind that bo Hi the famous universities are hard up. but so, also, is the state, and the. present is not eonsidereel the most suit a hie Li mo for obtaining any considerable consid-erable grant from it. Meanwhile many cif the undergradu-ates undergradu-ates r.re find'ng it difficult to make both endt: meet, owing to the inflated cost of hv ng. I'hTorts are being made by invoking in-voking the profiteering act to enable them lo procure necessities at less cost. P.efore the war it was possible for an unusually gifted youth to win scholarships scholar-ships which almost, if not quite, maintained main-tained him. Now, when the minim u.n sum on which he can support himse'f while at either of t he universities amounls lo from $ Kh'n) to Jlflou a year, he cannot live on schnki rsh'ps. |