Great position as the Mastership of Trinity is—the greatest, I
shculd say, in either university, though I am not a Trinity roan myself—Trinity is even more to be congratulated on securing Professor G. M. Trevelyan as Master than Professor Trevelyan on securing the Mastership. Family tradition con- spires with academic distinction to make the appointment ideal. The new Master's father, Sir George Trevelyan, went 013 to Trinity in 1857, and would have become a Fellow in due course, but for the offence caused to the then Master, Whewell, by his satire entitled "Horace at the University of Athens." Sir. George's uncle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, went up to Trinity in 1818, gained various college and uni- versity prizes, and was elected fellow. Happy is the foundation which, after losing such a Master as Sir J. J. Thomson, can so swiftly and unhesitatingly choose from the bosom of its own society a successor of equal brilliance. But there is just one tinge of regret—in the fear that the burden of administration may check the new Master's creative work. His task as a great historian is far from done.
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