A gentleman signing himself "En lEde Christi" is much scandalized
at Mr. Manrice's criticism on Oxford University dis- cipline and his implied defence of the German Universities, and says that "the discipline of luistchurch will bear comparison .with the discipline of any college in the University." Can it be true, as we have heard on an authority which it is not easy to doubt, that in the present term the Gentlemen Commoners of Christchurch, headed by a young nobleman, have several times assaulted and ducked in the pool known as " Mercury " a harm- less undergraduate,—and that the Dean has endeavoured to put down the rioters by the stern expedient of ordering the victim's door to be clamped with iron? or that the same set created a serious riot at Witney by playing billiards openly during service on a Sunday ? or that their ringleader broke all the furniture in the bar of an Oxford hotel on the refusal of the barmaid to pro- vide him with brandy? If this is so, and if the discipline of Christchurch "will bear comparison with the discipline of any other college in Oxford," we doubt whether Bonn itself, given Count Eulenburg, would venture to compete in rowdyism with the University of Alfred.
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