Can the college system of Oxford and Cambridge be trans-
planted and domesticated elsewhere? That has never, I think. been quite successfully achieved, for antiquity is an essential ingredient of it, even the newest foundations at the older universities seeming to draw something of that from the soil. But the University of Gottingen (founded, it is interesting to recall, by George II, sovereign both of Britain and of Hanover) is at present studying the question seriously. and the Professor of Physics there, Dr. von Weizsacker, son of the former Staats- sekretar, who has recently been released from thy. prison to which, in my judgement, he should never have been confined, is at present living in St. John's College, studying college life at first hand with a view to the possibility of introducing the college system at Gottingen. The decision, and its application if it is positive, will be watched with considerable interest.
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