3 JANUARY 1903, page 9

New Names For Old Vices.

T HE tendency of the age is to find excuses ; to persuade ourselves that an action which at first sight looks detestably bad is in reality not one which the community ought to......

Oxford Needs.

T HE old Universities are bad beggars. This is not from want of practice, for of late years they have con- stantly been in need, and they have not been slow to take the public......