Mr. Goldwin Smith on Wednesday gave an interesting lecture to
the Congress of working-men at Sheffield upon his own. experiences. He regards the Cornell University, in which he is still Professor, as partially a failure, the reason being that except in very rare instances you cannot effectually combine hard manual with hard intellectual labour. Both drew upon the- same fund of nervous energy, and this is capable of exhaustion. The effect of the combination seems to have been good only in this, that the idle and luxurious did not go to. Cornell, and that it provided an admirable training for the poor who did not actually require support. Mr. Smith had, however, dissuaded fourteen applicants from England, because the market for intellectual labour in the New "World was getting overstocked, —the reason, we believe, for the low rates by comparison paid to. all intellectual men.
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