1 MAY 1897, Page 17

UNIVERSITY REVENUES.

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—No mention is made in your leader on the above subject in the Spectator of April 24th of the slams spent on scholar- ships. Is it not a fact that large sums are every year given to those who can quite well afford the cost of a University educa- tion; that schools and colleges are impoverished by the attempt to outbid one another ; and that some kind of agree- ment would set free large revenues for improving the efficiency of the Universities, which would in the end attract far more students than are at present attracted by bribes P—I am, Sir,

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