We omitted to mention last week that the Committee of
Convocation appointed to consider the possibility of so modi- fying the University of London as to bring it into closer com- munication with the teaching bodies that prepare students for its examinations, made their Report to Convocation on Tuesday week last (May 25th), and produced a scheme at least so much more simple and more practicable than the one drawn up by Lord Justice Fry's Committee, that Convocation expressed its approval of many portions of that scheme, and seems likely, at the meeting of June 29th, to accept all its leading features at least, as the basis of a plan for the con- sideration of the Senate. Mr. Magnus, who moved the appoint- ment of that Committee, and who asked Convocation. for its sanction of the Report, is entitled to very great credit for the help and guidance which he has given to the deliberations of the Committee ; and though we are fax from pronouncing as yet that all the features of his scheme are practicable and wise, we do say without hesitation that the Report submitted to Con- vocation embodies very many sound and important principles which, if they be embodied in a new Charter, may secure to the University a still greater and more useful career in the future than the great and useful career which has marked it in the past.
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