Last Sunday was the jubilee of Dr. Arnold's death, which
-took place on June 12th, 1842. On Monday a meeting was held in the school dining-hall, adjoining the cloisters of West- minster Abbey, to make arrangements for the erection of a monument in the Abbey to the great reformer who has trans- formed so marvelously, not only the ideal, but to a great extent also the actual working life, of English Public Schools. Professor Jebb reminded those present that the then Provost of Oriel, Dr. Hawkins, had in his testi- monial to Arnold, declared his conviction that if he were made Head-Master of Rugby, he would change the face of education throughout the Public Schools of England, and that this remarkable prediction had been literally verified ; and Dr. Fearon, the Head-Master of Winchester, said that at Win- chester they took Dr. Arnold as their model, and delighted to honour him as the greatest of Wykehamists. Of course it was determined to erect a monument in the space allotted by the Dean. Indeed, all the evidence goes to show that never was a public monument more richly deserved, and that never will it have been more enthusiastically bestowed, than in the case of the man whose fame is as much greater now than it was fifty years ago, as the oak of fifty years' growth is greater than the sapling from which it sprang. There is no reformation so progressive as the reformation of the moral discipline and the intellectual training of the young,—which means also, cif course, the complete transformation of their teachers ; for that is a reformation which accumulates reforming power at compound interest.
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