EVIDENCE AGA.INST TILE UNIVERSITIES.
Word, 18th November 1850.
Sin—In the notices which from time to time have appeared in the public papers of the doings of the University _Commission, there is as yet no men- tion of any plan, or shadow of a plan, for eliciting the sense of the younger members of the University,—that is, of the governed body, who are the suffer- ers both in mind and in pocket by the present system: at present, only those seem destined to be examined who, fair and honourable as they may be, are those whose decided advantage it is to keep the present state of things intact. It seems to me, that if those members of the various Colleges who are still "in statu pupillari," were to select some one among them who from the tenour of his college life, and the -respect he may have obtained from his fellows during his career, should fitly and honestly represent to the Commis- sioners the sense of a large number of the Under-graduates, there would, be a far better chance of a thorough investigation ; which to do any good ratist be drawn from the opinions both of the governing and the governed, the teachers and the taught.
I am of opinion that the generous sentiments of the more liberal party in Oxford would induce them to lend their assistance to any plan whioli might tend to make the Commission effective; even though this, which I have thrown out merely as a suggestion, may not be the one decided on.
A RnsIDENT B.A. OP OXFORD.
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