The Oxford Dons have come to a compromise with the
Under- graduates about the festivities of Commemoration. The Enemnia are to be restored to the Sheldoiaian Theatre, but the Under- graduates, instead of being massed in the gallery, are to be distributed on the floor among the ladies. It is imagined that under these circumstances the lads will be ashamed to be riotous, will cease to fling about coppers, will not roar at the Vice- Chancellor, and will pronounce decorum to be "good form." The young women are, in fact, to maintain the discipline which the old women have failed to secure. The compromise is ingenious, but not flattering to the governing authorities of the University, who confess by it that the moment the Undergraduates are oollected together they themselves lose all power of restraining them within decent bounds. Would it not be as well to improve the arrangement by introducing an orchestra, which might fill up all pauses with music so good that the ladies would want to hear it, and the Undergraduates would not like to interrupt ?
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