The Cambridge University Commission has decided to recommend the mulcting
of the Colleges to the extent of £25,000 a year, for the endowment of the University, besides requiring the Colleges to give up each one fellowship towards the endowment of a professorship. How far this magnify- ing of the University at the expense of the Colleges will be productive of good, depends upon the spirit in which the future administration is to be conducted. If the University Professors keep as little hold as they have hitherto kept on the course of studies of ordinary undergraduates and graduates and on the testing of their studies, this magnifying of the Uni- Tersity will be a mischief and a failure. But if the University, besides teaching the higher students, does see that the -ordinary students are not crammed, but educated, then the pains taken to secure first-rate men for the professorships and for the control of the University system, will be productive of great results.
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