These are all the main features of this remarkable scheme of Reform, unless it be necessary to add
4. "To preside over a Congregation with full legislative powers, the Vice-Chancellor ought no doubt to be a man of real capacity."
But it would be invidious to suppose that there was any intention of suggesting this as a novelty.
The following rhythmical version of the Letter developes its principles to an extent which possibly the writer had never contemplated.
Letter from Mr. Gladstone to the Vice-Chancellor.
Dear Mr. Vice-Chancellor,
The Clarendon Trustees...... are ready, in concert with the University, to consider of the best mode of applying the funds belonging to them for "adding to the New Museum Physical Laboratories and other accommodation requisite for the department of Experimental Philosophy."
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I have the honour to remain,
Dear Mr. Vice-Chancellor,
Very faithfully yours.
May 3, 1867.W. E. Gladstone.
The following passages are quoted from a paper which appeared on the subject.
"As Members of Convocation are called upon to consider the offer of the Clarendon Trustees, to employ the funds at their disposal in the erection of additional buildings to facilitate the study of Physics, they may perhaps find it useful to have a short statement of the circumstances which render additional buildings necessary, and of the nature of the accommodation required."
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