Dr. Jex-Blake, who has succeeded in restoring to Rugby its
old prestige, besides equipping the school with costly and most valuable aids to health and education, is to be succeeded by Dr. Percival, the President of Trinity College, Oxford, and formerly Head Master of Clifton College, Bristol, ar well as an old pupil and most cordial friend of his immediate predecessor. Dr. Percival certainly made a great school of Clifton, and though he almost wore himself out in doing so, his seven years at Oxford have quite recruited his strength, and he will take to Rugby not only a great prestige from his early Rugby Mastership, and his great success at Clifton, but a certain dis- tinction in the mere fact that he descends from the Olympus of an Oxford Headship to the administration of Rugby. Under Dr. Percival, the prestige of the Rugby pulpit will certainly not deteriorate. He is one of those whom_ Mr. Arnold has described in the lines on " Rugby Chapel :"— " Languor is not in your heart,
Weakness is not in your mind,
Weariness not on your brow."
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