Mr. Stuart, to whom the Cambridge extension movement is in
great part due, followed, with a very important speech on the details of the organisation, stating that the movement had now been extended to thirty English towns in all, and urging the formation of a federated Committee for the Midland district, which should communicate with the University, and state how many teachers supplied by the University could be given full work in their district. Mr. Goschen, too, made a striking speech on the tendency of Universities, if they secluded them- selves too much from the work of practical life, to develop a school of " intellectual cynicism," for which there was no remedy to compare with the earnest effort to reach the people which is now being made. He also remarked on the danger which every trade and profession runs of losing large views under the smothering influence of details, a danger to which, he said, he knew politicians to be specially exposed. It was this danger, against which the teaching of the Universities should try to guard us. " Everybody was now looking forward to have more leisure, but if we worked less, we ought to learn more." The whole effect of the meeting will certainly be to give a new spring to this very important movement, for which the University of Cambridge de- serves the greatest credit. Certainly, the reform of twenty years ago has apparently inspired both Universities with a new spirit, besides giving them a new and better constitution.
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