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 *ity," he is congratulated by his tutor for having been passably decent. Whereupon he observes,—

"Thus closed my academical career. He who does not allow that it passed creditably to my teachers, profitably to myself, and beneficially to the world, is a narrow-minded and illiterate man, who knows nothing of the advantages of modern education."

Trollope in The Bertrams, and Kingsley in ''Yeast and Alton Locke'', have a few words for the subject, but add no new idea, except that Alton voices the disgust of the students themselves with their Alma Mater. It is this same young neophyte who is advised by Dean Winnstay to go to some such college as St. Mark's, which "might, by its strong Church principles, give the best antidote to any little remaining taint of sans-culottism."

In Butler's Erewhonian Colleges of Unreason the leading subject is Hypothetics, and the most honored Chairs are those of Inconsistency and Evasion, both required courses. Genius and originality are resolutely discouraged, it being a man's business "to think as his neighbors do, for Heaven help him if he thinks good what they count bad." These Erewhonian professors, by the way, might have adduced as evidence the well-known, horrified exclamation of Mary Shelley at the suggestion that her son