Not absolutely the first meeting of the Court of the
Victoria University, but its first meeting for business of primary import- ance, was held. on Wednesday at the Owens College, Man- chester, when the general regulations for the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees were adopted. We have dis- cussed some of the more important features of these regulations in another columu,but may add here that the discussion in the University Court turned chiefly on the question whether any candidates should. be admitted to degrees in Arts and Science without requiring from them any knowledge of Latin or .G reek, and that the friends of the modern subjects carried. the day. For the degree in Science the justice of the decision seems to us clear,. though it is, of course, very easy to argue that some knowledge of Latin is almost indispensable even to the proper understanding of scientific nomenclature. Unfortunately, that argument would apply with at least as touch force to Greek, and yet it is clear enough that an admirably educated scientific man of to-day need not be either a decent Greek or a decent Latin scholar. On the whole, considering the rapid and vast multiplication at our studies, it seems to its that the 'Victoria University has judged rightly in trying to foster thorough- ness of study, even at the expense of breadth.
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