The report of the Secretary to the Oxford University delegates
who manage the Oxford University Extension Scheme, for the year 1885-86, has just appeared, and shows some highly satisfactory results. The lectures at the various local centres have been attended by more than six thousand students during that time, and the answers of the students at these centres in those cases in which an examination took place (a great proportion of the whole), came up to a satis. factory standard. As showing how much the working-men's societies valve these lectures, the Secretary's report states that £300 has been spent on them in the past year by working-men's associations. But a fund is greatly needed for the endowment of local lecturers, for as yet only enough money has beenraised to endow a single lecturer,—namely, the Rev. W. -Hudson Shaw, formerly a Balliol exhibitioner, who is the first endowed lecturer under the Oxford University Extension Scheme. And as, daring the next few =laths, sixty courses of lectures will be delivered, it is obvious that a great many more endowed lecturers could be employed fully and most usefully in diffusing University teaching in provincial towns.
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