There seems to be an Oxford party, represented in a
letter to last Saturday's Times by the Master of Trinity, the Rev. J. Percival, which wants to persuade Lancashire and Yorkshire to give up their notion of a Northern University, and to induce Owens College, Manchester, instead, to get itself affiliated as a provincial adopted child of either Cambridge or Oxford. But, as Professors Roscoe and Ward reply in last Thursday's Times, this is merely offering Owens College what it would like even less than its present independent collegiate position. The two great industrial counties of the North wish to see a University of a somewhat different type growing up within their borders ; they wish to see their own teachers share, and share palpably, in the duty of determining the conditions of the degrees to be awarded in that University, and they do not wish to surrender the work of teaching the under- graduates till they are ready for their degrees. All these con- ditions are quite inconsistent with taking the place of a country cousin to the Oxford or Cambridge Colleges,—and if that were all it could hope to get, Owens College would rather stay as it is. We rather think it is right.
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