Cedarville College Bulletin, October 1922

"Who, for example,knew anything about Dr. John Radcliff? The encyclopedias tell us that he was an English physician born nearly 300 years ago; that he practiced medicine in London where he became the most popular physician of his day. These things are not written of him because they are themselves worthy of remembrance but be– cause he bequeathed $200,000 to Oxford to build a library. To this day that building is called Radcliffe and is open every day." "Near to Radcliffe is the older and more famous Bodleian library. It is now scarcely worth remembering that Sir Thomas Bodley fled from England during the persecutions under Mary, but returned on the accession of Elizabeth by whom he was employed on diplomatic missions to Denmark, France and Holland. These things are re– membered because he gave $50,000 to restore an old library at Ox– ford. Thus Radcliffe and Bodley have lived, though men have for– gotten King William's physician and Queen Elizabeth's diplomat." "Lawrence Sheriffe made a fortune as a shopkeeper in London. o one today knows where his shop of the sixteenth century stood, but every boy who has read "Tom Brown" knows about the school which Sheriffe founded at Rugby. The man is immortal who founded the school where such boys as Thomas Hughes, Dean Stan-' ley, and Matthew Arnold went to school." "A few years after the death of Sheriffe, Thomas Sutton became wealthy because coal was discovered on his estate. He founded a school for 'the sons of poor gentlemen to whom the charge of educa– tion is too onerous', making over an old building in London which had once been a monastery. At that time the most noted thing about it was that it had been the temporary residence of Queen Elizabeth during the preparation for her coronation. Today it is famous as the place where certain boys resided during their prepara– tion for life. Among these boys were William Blackstone, Joseph Addison, Dick Steele, John Wesley, William Thackeray and Baden Powell.'' "John Baliol founded at Oxford a college for poor scholars. He is today known not because his son John was for a time a poor king of Scotland but because Baliol college has had a host of such worthy and famous sons as Adam Smith, John Evelyn, Cardinal Manning, S<;mthey, Dean Stanley and Swinhurne." "The names of Henry VIII and Cardinal WoJsey are indissolubly linked together. The greatest things they did were the founding of -~-