Yesterday week, Mr. Forster made a good speech at Leeds
in favour of welcoming the Cambridge University extension system to that great town. Leeds was considering, it was true, the foun- dation of a local College of Science of her own,—for which ob- ject a great meeting is to be held next week,—but that did not cover the same ground as the University Extension scheme. The College of Science, if it were founded, would be for those who could give their chief time to learning. But the object of the University Extension scheme was to get good University teachers for those persons most of whose day-time was taken up in earning their bread. Mr. Forster then went on to propose that an Educa- tional Co uncil should be set on foot for Leeds, composed of delegates from the various educational bodies which the town contains, for the purpose of looking at the educational arrangements of Leeds as a whole, and dovetailing the various agencies into each other, from the primary schools to the highest College classes or lectures. Mr. Forster concluded with a hearty panegyric on Mr. Cross's speech at Orrell, in Lancashire, on the subject of compulsion ; and with some striking remarks, to which we have referred elsewhere, on the relation between education and the higher ends of human life.
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