Note 25 — A FEW MORE WORDS ON UNIVERSITY REFORM.
Reading edition
Did the learned Commissioners so little “know their man” as really not to detect in Mr Mansel’s evidence the happy vein of humour which has so often set St John’s common-room in a roar? Or was it that, conscious of the dulness of Blue-books in general, they purposely enlivened theirs with a few stray faceticæ?