1 DECEMBER 1883, Page 3

We are not sorry to see that the Cambridge Senate

has re- jected the proposal to establish a modern-language tripes, and wish the majority had been larger. It was only 40 to 39. The modern languages are most useful, but the study of them, even if their literatures are included, does not necessarily educate. The women who used to know them are now turning to harder and more educative studies. Some of the least educated men in Europe speak two or three languages, and there is always a practical difficulty in examinations. Men who have learned languages by residence, as we learn English, cannot be kept out, and very often know nothing else. The children of the Continental English are not the persons, as a rule, who deserve University honours.