The " Congregation " of the University of Oxford was
equally divided on Tuesday on the subject of the statute for creating an honours school in Modern Languages,-92 against 92,—and the result, of course, was that the Proctor gave his vote for rejecting it, which is the constitutional mode of dealing with a proposed change in the ease of an equal division of opinion. The Warden of All Souls', Sir W. Anson, led the attack on the statute, his weightiest reason against it being that " while in all other schools the standard of education implied was high, necessitating history, literature, and philosophy, this school alone discarded history and philosophy." That seems to us a very strong argument. A Bachelor of Arts should certainly be understood to have bad his mind well disciplined for the grasp of the greatest of human studies ; and a school which requires no history except literary history, and no philosophy, cannot be said to discipline the mind adequately.
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