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Advantages of Cavendish College, Cambridge, 
much more effective for after-life, but has admitted the pos- 
sibility of adding to the school the further advantage of a College 
course, and this within the University, and in permanent con- 
nection, therefore, with the highest education of the country. In 
short, many a lad of fifteen or sixteen who has been taught in 
a good school has it quite in his reach to take a University 
degree at eighteen or nineteen, and then enter on his profes- 
sional studies and duties with all the advantages of a completed 
course of general education. To secure practically this im- 
portant result, and to offer to such lads the best University 
instruction, with suitable protection and associates, and at a 
very moderate cost, the new Cavendish College is now being 
founded in Cambridge. An association has been formed, 
similar to those which have established the County Schools, 
which has been registered as " The County College Association, 
Limited." The Duke of Devonshire, Chancellor of the Uni- 
versity, is the President of the Association, and has allowed 
the new College to be called after his family name. A very 
influential body of trustees, directors and shareholders is being 
formed, in which leading University men are co-operating 
actively with some of the leaders of the agricultural and com- 
mercial classes. A special feature of the College is to be the 
preparation of trained masters for the middle and higher schools. 
If this is effectively done, one of the most urgent needs of the 
country will be supplied without any unnecessary extension of 
Government education, and a lasting union will have been 
effected between the Universities of England and the people 
generally. I sincerely hope that His Grace the Duke of 
Devonshire, and those he is encouraging to persevere in this 
interesting and important undertaking, will find that they are 
supported by those who will derive most substantial benefit 
from the new step thus offered them in the ladder of learning. 
To a farmer's family, access to higher education must be the 
greatest boon, not only because the art of agriculture itself 
urgently demands higher qualifications in those who follow it, 
but also, because all other honourable callings in life are more 
and more expecting a higher standard of education in all who 
can reasonably hope to prosper. Cavendish College, in appeal- 
ing to the counties of England for support, is offering itself, 
not exclusively, but specially to rural and agricultural families. 
The share capital (30,000/.) is being raised on the expectation 
of a dividend, which is not to exceed 5 per cent. ; and care 
has been taken to provide that this introduction of the com- 
mercial principle shall invigorate only, but not pervert, through 
greed of profit, the permanent and public object of its founders 
and benefactors. 
