We are happy to see that Keble College, Oxford, which
is to be opened next October, is not to be for any special class of students, —not exclusively for " poor " students, —but that it will take mem- bers from all classes and fit them for all professions, aiming, how- ever, at very moderate charges. There are to be rooms for 100 men. There will be a preliminary examination sufficient to test a man's capacity for passing the little-go. The Warden, Mr. Talbot, hopes that the charges will not exceed £70 a year, which will be paid quarterly in advance, and he intends to make such general arrangements as will make " economy easy and extra- vagance difficult." All this is exceedingly satisfactory, especially the repudiation of being either a class college or a party college, and the frugality. The "high thinking" which Oxford professes to teach, and in a certain per-tentage of every set of men she turns out succeeds in teaching, would be twice as effective if it were combined with "plain living," as it sometimes has been. It is not the culture of Oxford, but its luxury, which enervates the men who live there, for the weary battle of ordinary life.
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