University Reform

The insistent demand for University Reform has at length caused Authority to set up a Commission to find out what it is all about, who wants it and why, and what is the most (and least) that can (or should) be done. Authority will then, we presume, do something, or anything, or nothing. It has been privately suggested, with no change of facial expression observable by us, that the "Spike" "give a lead" to the Commission; we absolutely decline to attempt anything so egregious. The "Spike" has work enough engaging the interest of its actual readers without manufacturing penny thunders wherewith to excite the admiration of supposititious ones (who, if someone mentioned the "Spike" to them, would look blankly at the informant and uncertainly examine their chairs or their tempers). For the views of the expert, however, who can make the subject intelligible, or even interesting, to current readers, our pages are athirst: him we cheerfully invite to "Blow till thou burst thy wind, if room enough!"