THE " HUMANITY " CLASS IN GLASGOW.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"]
Srn,—Allow me to correct an error into which you have in- advertently fallen in your notice of Mr. Gladstone's Rectorial address at Glasgow. You say Mr. Gladstone announced " that of 590 students in Arts (or, as the Scotch call it, in the Humanity Classes), only 199 are independent of any avocation," &c. Allow me to inform you that in Scotland the term "Humanity" denotes Latin only, and that the statistics quoted by Mr. Glad- stone referred exclusively to students in the Latin classes. The curriculum of Arts in the Scottish Universities includes, besides Latin, the subjects of Greek, mathematics, natural philosophy, logic, moral philosophy, and English literature. The total number of Arts students in the University of Glasgow during the present Session is 1,400.—I am, Sir, &c., The University, Glasgow, Doc. 17th. GEORGE G. RAMSAY.
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