CARDINAL BECOMES A CHANCELLOR

ARDINAL HEENAN of Westminster put on the gold and scarlet gown as Chancellor of Heythrop College on Tuesday.
The Jesuit house of studies near Oxford will open its doors next autumn to all scholars, clerical, lay, men and women, becoming Britain's first institute outside a seminary where students can earn ecclesiastical degrees in philosophy and theology.
Archbishop Cardinale. t h e Apostolic Delegate, gave Cardinal Heenan his chancellor's robes after a pontifical high Mass at the college. Representatives f r o in Oxford University and the Government's Department of Education and Science were in the audience.
Archbishop Cardinale read a message from the Pope, in which he hoped the college would foster warmer relations with other beliefs..
RICH CONTRIBUTION Mr. J. A. Richards, on behalf of the Ministry of Education, said the studies by the general public as well as by members of the society would mark a major development in the rich contribution by Catholics to the education of the country.
Cardinal Heenan said his appointment as chancellor—which will continue through the Cardinals who succeed him—showed that Heythrop now "is not a Jesuit experiment but the joint enterprise of the whole Catholic community in this land".
It "will make no attempt to pass itself off as a university," he added. For a few years most of the staff and students will continue to be Jesuits. "But one day . . . men and women of every religious family will flock to Heythrop in search of a Christian philosophy. The empty fields will soon be adorned by hostels and religious houses." Non-Catholics will also go there to teach and study.
Plans are underway to build houses for various religious congregations on Heythrop's 600 acres. A new library to hold 500.000 books wens opened by Cardinal Heenan during Tuesday's ceremonies.