The latest number of the American Oxonian, the quarterly organ
of the American Rhodes Scholars (Concord: W. W, Thayer ; la.), is devoted to the British Universities' Mission a hich visited the American Universities last year. The main purpose of the Mission was to promote an interchange of students and teachers between our Universities and these of America, and it is pleasant to find that the American Professors whose opinions are recorded in this number are entirely favourable to the scheme. Thousands of young Americans used to go to the t;erman Universities. It would be an excellent thing for Great Britain, and, we think, for America also, if they could be induced to do their post-graduate work at Oxford or Cambridge, London or Manchester, or other British Universities. It would be well also if British graduates could spend a year or two at Harvard, Vele, Cornell, or some other American University. If some wealthy American would establish a counterpart of the Rhodes Trust, many of our young men of science would gladly complete their studies on the other side of the Atlantic.
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