Three special academic commemorations of last week demand our notice
and our congratulations to those concerned. Magdalene College, Cambridge, has cele- brated the end of five centuries since upon its site was founded the Hostel for students from the neighbouring Benedictine Monasteries. The Hostel became Buckingham College owing to the help given to it by the Duke who was executed by Henry VIII. Then it was refounded and dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene by the Nevilles of Audley End. Cranmer lectured there ; Dunster, first President of Harvard, was a Magdalene man, and the Pepys Library is a feature known far and wide. The college has developed greatly under the three late Masters, Lord Braybrooke, Dr. Stuart Donaldson, Dr. Arthur Benson, and under the present master, Mr. A. B. Ramsay, a leader in the present movement to seeure the amenities of the town. Rugby has celebrated the centenary. of Arnold's appointment as Head-master. King's College, London, has commemorated the centenary of the meeting held in London, with the Duke of Wellington and the Archbishops present, when it was resolved to found the College and the fund was started with which Smirke's building in the Strand was undertaken.
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