Lord Granville gave away the diplomas, medals, prizes, and -certificates
of the London University on Wednesday. He referred to the death of Sir George Jessel, the late Vice-Chan- cellor, with due warmth of feeling, intimating gracefully his satisfaction that on the advice of the Prime Minister,—advice, no doubt, suggested by himself,--the Queen had at once con- ferred a baronetcy on Sir George Jessel's eldest son, and so gracefully acknowledged to the son the national services ren- dered by the late Master of the Rolls to the nation at large. Lord Granville went on to refer to the remarkable success of a lady graduate in medicine, who had not only obtained the medal in obstetric medicine, but a third place in the honour -examination in surgery, thereby showing herself admirably fitted for her profession as a physician among the native women in the Presidency of Madras. His remarks on this subject were somewhat spoiled by a conventional com- pliment to the lady, which was as much out of place in a University as would have been a remark of the same kind -on the appearance of one of the other sex. Sir John Lubbock, in an interesting speech on the modern system of education, told a good story of a public-school man, who, when asked the meaning of a theodolite, said he believed a theodolite to mean -one who hates God,—his imagination, no doubt, running on the Foote and Bradlaugh controversies ; after which Sir James Paget, the new Vice-Chancellor, closed the meeting by a few sentences of almost Baconian strength and dignity, on the immeasurable perspective of the intellectual field.
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