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 NOTES BY THE WAY.

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��Its first

principal,

Alexander

John Scott.

��Queen

Victoria's

visit.

��The first Principal of the College, Alexander John Scott, M.A., was a man who exercised great personal influence and won much affection. Maurice dedicated to him his ' Mediaeval Philosophy,' Baldwin Brown his ' Home Life in the Light of the Divine Idea,' and George Mac Donald his ' Robert Falconer.'

The first two scholarships founded were to commemorate the visit of Queen Victoria to Manchester in 1851. One, the Victoria (Classical Scholarship), was given by Samuel Fletcher, and the other, the Wellington (Greek Testament) Scholarship, in memory of the Duke of Wellington, who accompanied her Majesty. This was the gift of George Faulkner.

The Jubilee celebration was in every way in accord with the directions left by the founder, that the College should be " free from the religious tests which limit the extension of university education." The opening service was held in the Cathedral, when the preacher was the Bishop of Manchester ; the closing service, " by the request of the Court of Governors," was held in Union Chapel, Dr. Maclaren, the President of the Baptist denomination, upon whom the College has conferred the degree of Litt.D., being the preacher.

��" CHIC."

It appears that this word is now recognized officially as good 1902, April 19. French, having been adopted by the French Academy. " Chic."

MIDDLE TEMPLE PRIVILEGES.

The Middle Temple Benchers have refused permission to the 1902, April 26. Post Office authorities to open the roads and lay telephone wires Middle

within the precincts over which they have control. Temple

privileges.

' BEN-HUR.'

The Jewish World of April 4th, 1902, states that " there was 1902, April 26. only one real Ben-Hur in Jewish history, and he lived in the time of Joshua." It continues :

" This is the third Jewish historical play presented in London in a few years. More intense than either, but never so elegantly mounted, is a Yiddish opera-drama, ' The Fall of Jerusalem,' which in its turn is succeeded by the ' Bar Cochba ' opera. Next in chronological order is Lessing's ' Nathan the Wise,' which deals with the Crusading time in Palestine. Emma Lazarus wrote a play of the same period concerning the Jews in Germany, so that if an attempt were made, Jewish history could be put upon the stage in something like its sequence. Dr. Herzl's ' Modern Ghetto ' and Dr. Nordau's ' Dr. Kohn ' are the expres- sion of the beginning of the twentieth century."

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