Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Universities, Education, Railways, Progress

    Claims that 'young Oxford appears to be Conservative, not to say reactionary', and expects that the 'great partiality' that 'the men show for "coaches" [i.e. tutors]' will result in a 'majority at the Union against Railways'. This is possibly a reference to the developments of the Great Western Railway Company near the university.