Mr. Lowe and Mr. Fowler have continued this week their
con- troversy about the Oxford pass examination, in letters published in Monday's and Tuesday's Times, and Mr. Fowler has again got very much the better of his opponent, who is very reckless in his charges against Oxford, without being very well up in the facts on which those charges, if true, should be based. In Monday's Times, Mr. Lowe states that the large number of class-men as compared with the number of pass-men at Oxford, is due to the fact that it has been found easier to take a low class in one of the subordinate schools, than to take a pass in classics ; or, as Mr. Lowe puts it, with a need- less, and we believe very unjust offensiveness of imputation, —,4 the reason why the number of class-men appears so large is that in the lowest depth the University has found a lower deep, and under the name of 'honours' has discovered a method by which the present examination for the B.A. Degree, easy as it is, may be successfully eluded."
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