Lord Granville presented the various diplomas and certifi- cates obtained
iu the University of London during the past year on Wednesday last, and in his speech on the occasion referred to the final admission of women to degrees, which he said would, as he believed, oondnee greatly to the utility, as it had already done to the grace, of their pro- ceedings. Referring to the fact that it happened to be his own birthday, Lord Granville remarked that birthdays did not belong to that class of articles which improved with age, and then diverged into something of a threnody over the neglected educational opportunities of his own youth. Whether Lord Granville's elegy over lost educational opportunities really im- pressed the young people he spoke to as much as he intended, may, however, be questioned. The argument a fortiori would certainly have impressed them ;—if an able Earl at the top of society missed a little knowledge so much, how much more would they be likely to suffer from the same cause. This a fortiori argument, however, Lord Granville was too modest to suggest.
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