LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE NEW OXFORD STATUTES.
[TO THE Enrroa OF THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—My friend Mr. Monro, Vice-Provost of Oriel College, in a letter which you print to-day, refers to an article in the Gegenwart, and evidently not having it before him, puts upon it a meaning of which I do not think it susceptible. Dr. Blunt- schli, in touching successively upon various characteristics of Oxford, states, and I fully agree with him, that the legal faculty needs further organisation. He then, without praise or blame, states that Professors are not obliged, as in Germany, to lecture
nearly every day ; and he proceeds at some length, and with some appearance of surprise, to explain the nature of a sinecure Fellowship. His words are as follows :-
" The organisation of the Juristic Faculty (Facultiitsbildung) leaves much to be desired ; and provision is only accidentally made for in- struction in certain subjects. The Professors are not obliged, as we are, to lecture nearly every day. The Fellows have not, like our Privatdocenten, to live at their own expense ; nor like them, to put forth all their energies to gain hearers, and make for themselves a road to the Professoriate. They have a salary from the college, and lodge and board there excellently well, and study at their good pleasure what, and as, they choose."
—I am, Sir, &c., T. E. H.
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