XIV. 



UNIVERSITY BEFOEM. 



IT seems to be quite generally felt that the 

 present time is a favourable one for entertaining 

 and discussing various projects for the improve- 

 ment of the University at Cambridge. To the 

 question of reform, in its general outlines, the at- 

 tention of our readers has already been directed 

 by able hands. 1 It is here proposed to pursue 

 the subject more into detail, and to deduce from 

 a few general principles the rudiments of a sys- 

 tematic scheme of reform. 



Note, first, that the idea of reform is to be kept 

 distinctly separate from that of revolution, and 

 that, while advocating the former, all encourage- 

 ment to the latter will here be strictly withheld. 

 The improvements from time to time aimed at 

 should as far as possible be brought about with- 

 out effacing the distinctive characteristics of the 



1 See F. H. Hedge's article in the Atlantic Monthly, September, 

 1866. The important change in the constitution of the university, by 

 which the Board of Overseers became an elected body, had just been 

 effected. 



