UNIVERSITY NEWS.
To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?']
SIR,—Mr. Stamford Raffles laments the difficulty of "procuring information of University progress." He seems to be unaware of the "Oxford Letter" which appears weekly in the Guardian, which contains notices not merely of the facts of University progress (or retrogression), but also of the proposals which are to be laid before Convocation. For more exhaustive information, your correspondent has only to subscribe to the University Gazette, in which he will find, in minutest detail, notice of every proposal of progress (or retrogression) given at least a week before the days of voting. Thus, "the non-resident M.A.'s," even in the remotest villages, have ample time to muster for the fray.
If, in addition to this, your correspondent desires to see a report of the latest University sermon, or cricket match, he should subscribe to the Oxford Magazine, Oxford Review, or the University Herald, all of which are well-conducted, fully-in- formed weekly periodicals. Your correspondent will, therefore, surely see that to suggest that, because the daily papers omit any but the most meagre University intelligence, the recent Vivisection vote was a hole-in-the-corner proceeding, is merely. the complaint of a disappointed indolence.— I am, Sir, &c.,
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