'Cambridge University extension has been one of the great
• subjects of the hortatory oratory of the week. On Mon- day afternoon, Mr. Arthur Mills, M.P., attended a meet- ing in the Guildhall of Exeter, to introduce the Cambridge University extension scheme to that city, the intention being to provide young Cambridge lecturers who may give the people of Exeter thorough University courses at a moderate cost, and even examine the classes which they form, so as to ensure that the work done is not the mere vague work of lecturers in general. Mr. Mills laid great stress on the importance of enabling the cleverer and more industrious children of the working-class to find their way ultimately to the Universities, and for that purpose we would call our readers' attention to a very valuable letter from' Sheffield which appears in another column. These University lec- turers in the provinces will never effect all that Mr. Mills hopes, without providing scholarships for the best children of the primary schools available at the secondary schools, and so paving the first and most difficult part of the upward way. How effectively this work has been begun in Sheffield our readers will see in Mr. Cardwell's letter.
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