I am indebted to the Principal of St. David's College,
Lampeter, about whose application to be recognised as a university I made some observations last week, for the full text of Mr. Justice Vaisey's findings in the case. As was stated, His Lordship, while recognising that St. David's College " possesses most of the necessary ingredients that go to make a foundation or university," could not " bring himself to believe that the ordinary educated man would say that St. David's College was a univer- sity." The reasons for drawing this fine distinction deserve further study, but there is no space to go into them in detail here. It is fair to the college, however, to add that His Lordship spoke in tile highest terms of the education provided there. "It is." he asserted, " providing education of .a very high class, and, having regard to the quality and antecedents of those who teach there, the students are receiving an education of the highest Possible kind." There was. in fact, never any question about that. The only question was whether so small an institution, with a curriculum, while adequate for the college's particular aims, yet distinctly limited by comparison with most universities', could properly be styled a university. On that I find it impossible. to quarrel with the learned Judge.
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