Mr. Lowe has been gazetted as Viscount Sherbrooke, and a
writ has been moved for the election by the University of London of a new Member in his place. Sir John Lubbock will certainly be returned unopposed, and on Wednesday the Senate of the University, after thanking him for his long and efficient services as Vice-Chancellor, elected Sir George Jessel, the Master of the Rolls, Vice-Chancellor in his place. Both selections are good. And though we should have preferred to have seen the University sending the Master of Cie Rolls to the House of Commons, as its best and most characteristic repre- sentative, and retaining Sir John Lubbock in the place he has filled so worthily, it is something to find that the graduates thoroughly appreciate the services of the man whom the Senate has so long trusted, and that the Senate recognise the eminent academical as well as judicial qualities of the most distinguished of the University's graduates. It must be remembered that the University does not wholly lose the ser- vices of Lord Sherbrooke, who still remains a member of the Senate, to which, in the novel leisure of his new position, he may render eminent service. No man knows more of University work, though he does believe so strongly in the superiority of engineering to scholarship.
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