19 MARCH 1870, Page 12

The Times states that the governing body of Christ Church

College, Oxford, have abolished the privileges hitherto allowed to Peers' sons. They are to claim their degrees like other men, and the gold tuft on the cap and silk gown, till recently worn by them, are henceforth disallowed. The change, if it has been made officially, is quite right, absolutely right in principle, and it is no fault of the College or of Radicalism that every such change tends to deepen that rathex dull uniformity in all the externals of life which is growing so fast upon us. Equality is good, and if we cannot have it without equality of costume, well, we must even consent to live in a drab world.