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the charities of the country were under the control of a Commission which sat in 
St. James’s Square. He thought it advisable that the Universities should be also 
controlled by some influential board, such as the Committee of the Privy Council. 
He next referred to what he considered to be the prejudicial influence which he 
thought was often exerted upon the education of the country by the course of study 
ee at the University, and he quoted the instance of a school containing eighty 
oys, in which scarcely anything was taught but classics and mathematics, simply 
because a certain number of these boys were prepared for the Universities, id 
thought that such an evil would be remedied if the course of study were more 
extended, and if other more practically useful subjects—such as the modern lan- 
guages, natural and moral sciences—were more encouraged in the University. He 
also thought that the students of the University ought to be instructed in subjects 
which would be more practically useful to them in atter-life, He desired that some 
scholarships and fellowships should be given to those who passed a successful 
examination either in modern languages or in the moral or natural sciences. 
When the British Association for the Advancement of Science, some years ago, 
met at Cheltenham, the Rey. Dr. Dobson, head master of the Cheltenham College, 
was asked if more science could not be introduced into the Cheltenham College 
system, Inreply, the head master mentioned, that it was the general wish of the 
parents who sent boys to the College at Cheltenham that their sons should have 
that instruction which would enable them to obtain scholarships and fellowships at 
Oxford and Cambridge. Dr. Dobson was of opinion that an alteration should first 
be made in the requirements for scholarships and fellowships at the ancient Knelish 
universities, before changes could be effected in the public school system of this 
country. 
‘A Royal Commission, presided over by the Earl of Clarendon, has, since that 
time, been appointed to inquire into the state of the largest and most richly endowed 
English public schools. 
At Oxford, in the majority of cases, college fellowships are exclusively bestowed 
as the rewards of success in the classical examination for honours, at the time of 
the Bachelor of Arts degree, and Latin composition is constantly required in all 
the colleges of Oxford. 
College-fellowship examinations govern, in a large measure, the whole system of 
higher endowed education in England and Wales. 
choolmasters are} frequently selected for the largest grammar schools from the 
class of college fellows. en installed into the chair of office, it is their highest 
ambition that their pupils should succeed in obtaining college scholarships and 
fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge. 
Dean Peacock, formerly fellow and tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, strenu- 
ously urged the abolition of exercises in Latin and Greek versification in academical 
examinations on account of the time necessary to acquire the art of making verses 
in dead languages, and the speedy loss of facility in composing such verses when 
the practice of writing them had ceased for some years. j 
In the examinations for college fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge, exercises 
in the composition of Latin and Greek verses should no longer be set, and an 
alternative should be allowed between prose pig eon in Latin and Greek and 
more modern subjects, such as translations from English into French and German, 
questions in English history, and exercises in English composition. 
There are about 500 or 600 fellowships in the two ancient Universities of Oxford 
and Cambridge, of which at least 50 or 60 become vacant every year; a larger pro- 
portion of these academical rewards should be set apart for the encouragement of 
science. 
On the Prevention of Crime. By Enwin Huu, of the Inland Revenue Office. 
“ Crime walks thy streets, fraud earns her unblest bread ; 
O’er want and woe thy gorgeous robe is spread.” 
The author called attention to the large number of habitual criminals whose sole 
occupation is to plunder others—a predatory class, harbouring in the an bosom 
of society, and keeping its ground in undiminished numbers in spite of all the 
