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reimuieratioii is allowed, and lieiicc it does not become necessary 

 to make an additional tax upon the students' resources. The con- 

 ferring; of degrees is also made a very profitable affair. Each can- 

 didate for the degree of B. A. pays out £7 to the voracious 'varsity 



chest, and upon proceeding' 

 to the M. A. a further con- 

 tribution of £12 is request- 

 ed. In this way the univer- 

 sity makes about £12,000 a 

 year, and, as though this 

 was not sufiicient, she re- 

 quires a matriculation fee of 

 £5 for every student who 

 becomes a member. By 

 this means another annual 

 £5,000 is obtained. It must 

 be remembered that these 

 fees are entirely separate 

 from the college fees. 

 When the £5 matriculation 

 for the latter is taken into 

 consideration and the £8 a 

 term (at Trinity) for lec- 

 tures, two thirds of which 

 the student does not attend, 

 when it is understood that 

 all this and more does not 

 include living expenses, which are by no means slight, and that 

 there are three terms instead of two, as with us, it will be ob- 

 vious that Cambridge adheres very closely to the rule that to 

 them only who have wealth shall her refining influence be given. 

 That the greatest universities in existence should render it almost 

 totally impossible for aught but the rich to obtain the advantages 

 of their unusual educational facilities jars with that idea of democ- 

 racy of learning which an American training is apt to foster. But, 

 as we shall point out later, an aristocracy of learning may also 

 have its uses. 



With all the revenues the university collects from colleges and 

 students, amounting in all to about £65,000, Cambridge still finds 

 herself poor. Some of the colleges, notably King's and Trinity, 

 are extremely wealthy, but tlic university remains, if not exactly 

 impecunious, at least on the ragged edge of financial difilculties. 

 The various regius and otlier professorships, inadequately endowed 

 by the munificence of the crown and of individuals, have each to be 



Henry Sidiiwick, Lift. D., Trinity. 

 Knightl)ridj,'e Prufessor of Moral Philosophy. 



