PRACTICAL EDUCATION AT OXFORD.

Henceforth honor candidates in law, history, and science at Oxford, will be excused from the classical examinations, which are called the "moderations," at the end of the first or the beginning of the second year. The classics can now all be got rid of before entering the university, leaving the student free, as at Harvard now, to specialize as much as he pleases. The great public schools are altering their curricula so as not only to finish the classical part of the education, but supply elementary instruction in the principal sciences. Thus one after another the old ideas give way to the new, and the fossils are put on the shelves where no longer as models, but as objects of wonder they may be looked at by succeeding generations.