MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. WELLINGTON COLLEGE.-Mr. R. Griffith, B.A., Scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, Ireland University Scholar, has been appointed one of the Assistant-Masters of Wellington College. HEAD-MASTERSHIP OF HARROW SCHOOL.-The Governors of Harrow School have elected the Rev. Henry Montagu Butler, Fellow and AssistantTutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Head-Mastership, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. Mr. Butler, the third son of the late Dr. Butler, who was for 20 years Head-Master of the same school, and afterwards Dean of Peterborough, was distinguished in his career at Cambridge, where he was elected a Scholar of Trinity College in 1853, and obtained the following University honours-viz., the 1st Bell's University Scholarship in 1852, the Battie University Scholarship in 1853, the Browne Medals for Greek Odes in 1853 and 1854, the Porson Prize for Greek Iambics and the Camden Medal for Latin Hexameters in 1854, and the 1st Member's Prize awarded to undergraduates for a Latin Essay in 1854. He was first in the first class of the classical tripos of the year 1855. He was in the same year elected a Fellow of Trinity College, on the first occasion on which the rules permitted him to be a candidate. MISS MARTINEAU ON SWIMMING FOR LADIES.-We have proposed every child--and not only every boy-as a swimming pupil, because the main reasons for anybody's being able to swim are good for everybody. English women have four limbs, and live in an island, and make voyages, and practise sea-bathing, and need exercise in the water at school and at home, and go out in boats-in short, run the universal risks in regard to water; and, therefore, they have a claim to be taught to swim. At the time when the great school was kept away from the river because a boy had been drowned, a sensible and wealthy Quaker gentleman built a bathing-house for his young daughters on a mere in his grounds, which was sufficiently fenced with reeds to secure privacy; and the girls learned to swim. In the sea they could all go through the exercises as South Sea women do. Their frames were improved; their health was improved; their safety was improved; and there was not a shadow of an objection to be set off on the other side.-Once a Week. wept as he went up, and had his head covered; ORIGIN OF THE JUDGE'S BLACK CAP.-The practice of our judges in putting on a black cap when they condemn a criminal to death will be found, on consideration, to have a deep and sad significance. Covering the head was in ancient days a sign of mourning. "Haman hastened to his house, mourning and having his head covered." (Esther.vi. 12.) In like manner Demosthenes, when insulted by the populace, went home with his head covered. "And David. and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up." (2 Samuel xv. 30.) Darius, too, covered his head on learning the death of his Queen. But among ourselves we find traces of a similar mode of expressing grief at funerals. The mourners had the hood "drawn forward over the head." (Fosbroke, Encyc. of Antiq., p. 951.) Indeed, the hood drawn forward thus over the head is still part of the mourning habiliment of women when they follow the corpse. And with this it should be borne in mind that, as far back as the time of Chaucer, the most usual colour of mourning was black. Atropos also, who held the fatal scissors which cut short the life of man, was clothed in black. When, therefore, the judge puts on the black cap, it is a very significant as well as solemn procedure. He puts on mourning, for he is about to pronounce the forfeit of a life. And, accordingly, the act itself, the putting on of the black cap, is generally understood to be significant. It intimates that the judge is about to pronounce no merely registered or supposititious sentence; in the very formula of condemnation he has put himself in mourning for the convicted culprit, as for a dead man. The criminal is then left for execution, and, unless mercy exert its sovereign prerogative, suffers the sentence of the law. The mourning cap expressively indicates his doom.-Notes and Queries. INDEX. A FABLE for Northern Italy, 389 A Representative Schoolmaster, 40 American Schools and the Bible, 45, 153 Arnold, Mr., Death of, 144 A Cracked Commandment, 312 Appointments, 170, 207, 244, 308, 345 BICESTER Schools, 65 British Orphan Asylum, 149, 276 British and Foreign New College, 283 Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 170, 208, 276, 308, 348, 383, 412 CITY of London School, 34, 284 Chancellorship of Edinburgh University, 396 Cambridge Discipline, 41 Class List of Teachers, 114, 119 Comparative Education Statistics, 275 Committee of Council Report, 231 DELILLE, Mr., Death of, 33 Drawing Certificates, 117, 143 363, Dress of Charity Children, 253 EDUCATION in France, 49 Education in London, 74, 113, 122, 136, Education in India, 84, 118 Educational Difficulty in Ireland, 390 Education, Practical, 349 Education in Ireland, 171, 230, 340, 381 Examination Questions, 77 Examination Papers, 157, 192 FREEMASON'S School, 48 Freedom of London, 345 GOODWIN, Dr., Dean of Ely, 30, 43 How to Reform a Class, 13 Horticultural Garden, 333 Harrow, Speech Day at, 251, 381 INDIAN Civil Service, 7, 84 Irish Education, 105, 151, 171, 230, 340, KINDER Garden, 65 King's College School, 66 LIVERPOOL Collegiate School, 61, 63, 109 150 Lectures on Education, 212 Ladies' Charity School, 293 Literary Institutions, 156 Literary Men and their Wives, 384 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS:- Beeton's Directory, 161 Biographical and Historical Treasury, Buckland's Botany, 376 Guide to the English Constitution, 297 Handy Books, 161 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS:- Stories and Pictures, 163 Tabernacle in the Wilderness, 24 ST. PAUL'S School, 35, 219 Stationer's School, 347 Social Science Congress, 371 Speech Days, 223, 251, 288, 291, 381 TAKING it Coolly, 384 Theological Tenets, 69 Tossing the Pancake, 108 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE :--- Cambridge, 41, 58, 63, 135, 169, 206, Dublin, 59, 97, 243, 273, 409 London, 33, 207, 274, 307, 343, 409 WELLINGTON College, 35 Woolwich Artillery School, 60, 292 END OF VOLUME THIRTEEN. Alabaster & Passmore, Printers, 34, Wilson Street, Finsbury.A |