. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e endow-ments had been improved. New colleges had been provided, and yet therewere fewer students in the arts in the Irish universities than there had beenforty years ago ! In the next place Mr. Gladstone entered upon a sketch of the historyof the Irish universities. He called attention to the fact that at DublinTrinity Col
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e endow-ments had been improved. New colleges had been provided, and yet therewere fewer students in the arts in the Irish universities than there had beenforty years ago ! In the next place Mr. Gladstone entered upon a sketch of the historyof the Irish universities. He called attention to the fact that at DublinTrinity College had got out of all relation with the university of which itwas logically a part There had been several colleges there, but only Trinitysurvived. And yet the University of Dublin was the legitimate universityof Ireland. This condition of affairs called loudly for a reform. TrinityCollege ought to be brought into its true historical relations with DublinUniversity. It was a part of the bill proposed to do that. It was alsoproposed that the Queens Colleges at Belfast and Cork should bemade parts of a university system. As to the Galway College, thatinstitution, he thought, ought to be closed within a period of two years. 490 LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM E. 7^ o ;j > V o DECLINE OF THE REFORMATORY MOVEMENT. 49I The so-called Queens University should be merged with the Universityof Dublin. As to these institutions—all of them—religious tests should be abol-ished. The university should be freed from the unnatural domination of thecolleges. Members should be admitted into the university, whether theybelonged to anj- of the colleges or not, according to fitness. The collegesshould be made contributory to the university, and not it to them. Owing to the peculiar religious condition of Ireland the premier thoughtthat a limit should be laid on the teaching of certain academical should be constituted a governing body, under the authorit)- of thecrown and
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