16 MAY 1914, Page 16

UNREPORTED EPIGRAMS.

[To THE EDITOZ OF THE " STECTATON.."] SIB,—It often happens in speeches that the words which really touch the heart go unreported. Permit me to rescue from oblivion the following passage in an address to the new graduates at the University of London on Wednesday last by the Vice-Chancellor. After insisting that the two problems to be solved during the next fifty years would be the redistri- bution of wealth and the fixing of a limit to the rights of majorities, Dr. Herringham expressed the hope that most of the new graduates would live to see those problems settled, adding for himself that be, who would gladly sit up to see the dawn, should be obliged to go to bed in the dark.—I am,