The vacancy in the Endowed Schools' Commission occasioned by the
nomination of Mr. Arthur Hobhouse to the Legislative Council of India has been very suitably filled by the appointment of Mr. Henry John Roby, sometime Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. As Secretary to the late Schools' Inquiry Commission, Mr. Roby acquired a great, probably an unrivalled, knowledge of the condition and history of the endowed educational foundations of the country, and he is generally credited with a prominent share in the preparation of the invaluable Report of that Commission.. As he has subsequently filled with much distinction the office of Secretary to the Endowed Schools' Commission itself, we may regard his advancement as a significant proof that at least in the opinion of the Government the policy of that Commission, obnoxious as it has proved to small local and personal interests everywhere, and to corporate bodies with patronage to dispense, is nevertheless calculated to advance the true interests of education, and ought to be steadfastly pursued.
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