The Governors of Rugby, who meet next week, will have
another questionable act of Dr. Hayman's to consider. The num- bers of the School are understood to have fallen so much that it was necessary to dismiss an Under-master, and Dr. Hayman has selected for dismissal one of the ablest and best, and not even one of the half-dozen last appointed. There are, we understand, left, junior to Mr. Arthur Sidgwick, three Masters of Dr. Temple's re'gime, and three more of Dr. Hayman's ; and yet the tacit ,understanding with the Under-masters is said always to have been that when a dismissal was necessitated by falling numbers, the latest appointed should be the first to go. Mr. Arthur Sidgwick was a distinguished old Rugbeian, won a brilliant place at Cambridge, and he is said to have stood next but one in succession to the mastership of a Boarding House. Dr. Hayman, perhaps, persuades himself that he is thinning the ranks of the Constitutional Opposition by his blow at Mr. Sidg- wick. Perhaps so, but when the fame of the School depends on -the Constitutional Opposition, that is rather like imprisoning your debtor, instead of letting him earn what would pay the debt. Dr. Hayman has a talent for silence. And if this goes on long, the schoolhouses will soon show a talent for silence too.
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