While the Cambridge Senate passed the proposition to include an
examination for girls in the Local,Examination scheme by a majority of 56 to 51, the Hebdomadal Board at Oxford have, we regret to say, rejected it by a majority of 10 to 8, two or three not voting who, if they had voted at all, would have voted with the majority. It is said that the silly Liverpool memorial, the blunders of which we explained a few weeks ago, weighed strongly with the majority, and that Dr. Pusey further gained votes by a statement that at Cambridge the defeated minority alone were in earnest, while the majority voted the scheme as an excellent joke. Of course Dr. Pusey's information was derived from the minority and not from the majority, audits authority is Of about as much weight as a controversial imputation of Tertullian's. But for the present it stands written that Oxford thinks it immaterial that what girls are taught at all they should be taught well.
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