THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONERS.
[TO THE EDITOIL OF Tas " SnoTAT0R."]
Silt,—Although, on the ground of want of space, you have de- clined to admit into your columns, not only a letter criticising your Cambridge correspondent's article of December 4th, but also my reply to his letter of last Saturday, I venture to hope that you will place before your readers the following bald statement.
In my letter to the Atltenanon, I neither defended the Head- ships, nor expressed my opinion about those tutors whom your correspondent attacked. My chief complaint was, that your correspondent, while he dwelt upon defects in the new College statutes, studiously ignored or minimised the important reforms which have been effected both in the Colleges and in the Uni- versity. I further pointed out that it is the business, not of a legislative Commission existing for a limited period, but of a permanent Executive Council, to deal with the misconduct of individuals. Your correspondent's rejoinder is no answer to either of my criticisms.
The assertion that " in the larger Colleges it has become cus- tomary for tutors to take no share whatever in the teaching is incorrect, at auy rate so far as concerns one large college, to which his article of December 4th makes special reference.. The interests of reform require that your correspondent's unsound and gloomy estimate of what has been done under the auspices of the Commission should not pass unquestioned.—I
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