10 SEPTEMBER 1870, Page 3

The election of Professor Jowett to the Mastership of Balliol

'College, Oxford, is a great event for the University,—not that the Master of Balliol has usually exercised, or perhaps can exercise, ;nearly so important an influence over the undergraduates as the Tutors ; but that this election is a great defeat to the exclusionists who would make a liberal theology a bar to all University ad- vancement, even in the case of one as distinguished for the deep -and noble influence he has exercised over young men as Professor -Jewett. He has so long, indeed, been the central attraction of BBalliol College, that to have elected any other fellow of the -College in his place would have been a sort of solecism far more uncomfortable for any one so preferred, than for Professor -Jowett.