London was still refusing to let them sit for matriculation. The collision ...

London was still refusing to let them sit for matriculation. The collision of the Two Spheres is a Late-Victorian theme, almost a Late-Victorian revolution: in Mid-Victorian England only the first mutterings of the revolution can be heard.

COMPARED with the uncertain aims and methods of middle-class and female education, the growth of the Universities and public schools has all the appearance of a concerted evolution aiming at the production of a definite type. The institution of serious examinations, at Cambridge in 1780, at Oxford in 1802, had created at the two Universities fields of keen intellectual emulation.

The distinction of pass and honours not only set up an objective for the ambitious, but united them in an intellectual aristocracy where form was studied as eagerly as, in later days, athletic gifts.' By tradition Cambridge was mathematical and Oxford was classical, but Oxford had an honors school in mathematics before Cambridge established the classical tripos, and the awe-inspiring double Peel's translation of suave mart magzo: suave, it is a source of melancholy satisfaction, was remembered all his life.

Hogg and Shelley (in Hogg's Lift) seem to me the first undergraduates, recognizable as such, on record. The nation has just sustained the greatest 100 that could possibly have fallen upon it.