20 MAY 1911, page 3

The Question Of Compulsory Greek At Oxford Came Before...

on Tuesday. The new Statute renders Greek an optional subject in responsions for candidates who afterwards take honours in Mathematics or Natural Science. It was supported by......

We Are Glad To Note The Appeal Which Has Been

issued by the Non- conformistITnionist Association to Nonconformist Unionists in Great Britain. It is pointed out that if the Parliament Bill becomes law, the Home Rule crisis......

To-day Lord Roberts Inspects The Surrey Veteran Reserve...

Millmead Meadows at Guildford. The gathering is one of great interest, for the Reserve has now, which it had not when it was paraded before the Secretary of State for War last......

The Defence Put Forward By The Chancellor Of The Exchequer

last week for the delay in collecting the railway companies' income-tax is the subject of some very damaging criticism in the Manchester Guardian of Friday, May 12th. After......

In A Leading Article Headed " Occasional Conformity " The

Times, of Thursday, strongly supports the action of the Bishop of Hereford in inviting Nonconformists to the cele- bration of Holy Communion in Hereford Cathedral a few days......

Mr. Balfour Delivered A Powerful Fighting Speech To An...

of ten thousand at Newcastle on Thursday night. The people, he declared, had to choose between two solutions of the Constitutional problem offered to them by the two political......

With Every Word Of Mr. Balfour's Speech On This Point

we are in entire agreement. There never was a greater political crime than the creation of the interregnum in order to pass Home Rule against the will of the nation. But though......

Bank Rate, 3 Per Cent., Changed From 31 Per Cent.

Mar. 9th. Consols (2-1) were on Friday 811—Friday week 81i.......

On Friday Week There Was A Display Of Flying At

Hendon, organized by the Parliamentary Aerial Defence Committee with the help of Mr. Grahame-White. A particularly surprising series of experiments was that of dropping......

In Spite Of The Fact That So Many Unionist Politicians

seem to think differently, we are convinced that the best would not be made of a bad business, but the worst, by forcing the creation of Peers. To do so would, no doubt,......