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ED U CATION AL.



days of Montagu and St. John to those of Can-
ning and Peel.  You need not stop there, but
come down to the time of Lord Derby, and my
Right Honorable friend the Chancellor of the
Exchequer. Has it not always been the case
that the men who were first in the competition
of the schools have been the first in the com-
petition of life?  Look also to India. The
ablest man who ever governed India was War-
ren Hastings; and was he not in the first rank
at Westminster?  The-ablest civil servant I
ever knew in India was Sir Charles Metcalfe;
and was he not a man of the first standing at
Eton ? The most distinguished member of the
aristocracy who ever governed India was Lord
Wellesley.  What was his Eton reputation?
What, vvas his Oxford ........ :_



      Faithful Stidents Successful Men.     i....             ,',,'.
                                            i   If there be in this world
a trying test of
  T'. i    b-   : i'azia~iecil who had iiiii- Ihe fitness of men for the
competition of active
iiaited thait aI Un iversity educttion unfitted life, and of the strength
and acuteness of their
3 ouig iliet tir ihe practical duties of' life, lon. practical faculties,
it is to be found in the con-
Ti i. 'tciuley uutade the tullowing reply:  tests of the English bar. Look
at Lord Mans-
    It I undelstanld tile  pillions iniputed to field, Lord Eldon, Lord Stowell,
Sir Vicary
tiiat noble lodi., be tLihks tihe proiicienye of a Gibbs, Lord Tenterden
and Lord Lyndhurst.
Sutig Ulail ill those pursuits which constitute ITake either the common law
or the equity bar.
a liberal cLIucatiUll is not only tio indication IThe present Lord Chief
Baron was senior
that he is in aiter-jife io niake a disii:iguibhed Iwraugler ; Mr. Baron
Aidersen was senior
figure, hut that it po.-iltely raises a plreunip- wrangler; Mr. Juslice Manue
was seniorwrang-
tion that il aitter-hle lie will be overcome in ler; Mr. Baron Parke was
eminently distin-
those conitets which then take place. I tin- guished at the university ior
his classical and
derstand that the noble lord is of opinion that matheniatical attainments;
Mr. Baron Platt
young ,ieiaC gaining distiliction in ,uch pursuits was a wrrangler: and MNr.
Justice Coleridge
are likely to turn out dullards, atd utterly un- was one of the most eminent
men of his time
fit for the contests of active life; and I am not at Oxford.  Then take the
equity bar. The
sure that the noble lord did not Say that it Lord Chancellor was a wrangler:
Lord Justice
would be better to make boxing or cricket a Sir George Turner was high in
the list of'wrang-
test of fitness than a liberal education.  lers; all the three Vice Chancellors
were
  -I nimult say that it seems to me that there wranglers; Sir Lance]pt Shadwell
was a wrang-
never was a fact better proved by an immense ler, :and a very distinguished
scholar; my
mass of evidence, by an experience almost un- friend Sir James Parker was
a high wrangler,
varied, than this: that men who distinguish and a distinguished mathematician.
 Can we
themselves in their youth above their contem- suppose that it was by mere
accident they ob-
poraries in academic competition almost always tained their high positions
?  Is it possible not
keep to the end of their lives the start they to believe that these men maintained
through
have gained in the earlier part of their career. life the start which they
gained in youth? And
This experience is so vast that I should as soon is it an answer to these
instances to say that
expect to hear any one question that arsenic is you can point-as it is desirable
you should be
poison, or that brandy is intoxicating. Take able to point-to two or three
men of great
the very simplest.  Take down in any library powers, who, having neglected
the struggle
the Cambridge Calendar. There you have the when they were young, have afterward
exerted
list of honors for a hundred years.  Look at themselves to retrieve losatime,
and have some-
the list of wranglers, and of junior optimes, times overtaken and surpassed
those who had
and I will venture to say that bor one man who got far in advance of them?
Of course, there
has in after-life distinguished himself among are such exceptions. Most desirable
is it that
the junior optimes you will find twenty wrang- there should be, and that
they should be noted,
lers. Take the Oxford Caiendar: look at the in order to encourage men who,
after having
list of first-class men, and compare them with thrown away their youth, from
levity or love
an equal number of men in the third class, and of pleasure, may be inclined
to throwr their
say in which list you find the majority of men manhood after it, in despair;
but the general
who have distinguished themselves in after- rule is, beyond all doubt, that
which I have
life. But is not our history full of instances laid down. It is this: that
those men who dis-
wkich prove this fact?  Look at the Church, tinguish themselves most in academical
com-
the Parliament, or the Bar. Look to the Par- petition, when they are young,
are the men
liament from the times when Parliamentary who, in after-life, distinguish
themselves most
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