UNIVERSITY NEWS.

HONORARY D.DD.s AT

OXFORD.

CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE

AWARDS.

OXFORD, JUNE 28.

A special Convocation was held to-day to confer the honorary degree of D.D. on the Veni. Dr. R. H. Charles, Archdeacon of Westminster, the Rev. Dr. A. H. MeNeile, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin, and the Rev. Dr. J. W. Oman, Principal of Westminster College.

The Vice-Chancellor, Dr. F. W. Pember, Warden of All Souls, presided, and the new doctors were presented by the Public Orator, Mr. A. B. Povnton. Before making the presentations, the Public Orator referred in a few words to the loss which the University had just suffered by the death of Professor H. W. C. Davis, Regius Professor of Modern History.

In introducing Arcbdeacon Charles the Orator said that he had made large tracts of Biblical study frugifera et iucunda legentibus, and had thrown great light on the Apocalypse. He had disproved the accepted opinion that for some centuries Hebrew poets were silent, had expounded their dreams and prophecies

and had shown how pia sed * ecessaria fraude speem suant dissimulaverunt fore ut aliquavdo Deus Omnipotens Anhiochos, Pompeios, Caesares, ferro fJammisque corriperet. Dr. Charles, undeterred by ancient prejudice or by the variety of languages and dialects terriloquas illas spent longran incohantitum voces, non minus sapienter quam Daniel scripturam illara in regis pariete, interpretatus eat, lepore Riberno rerum taiutem greiitatem temperants. Since he had been raised to high dignity in the Church, he had yet continued his studies and omnibus Veritatis Christianae studiosis auctoritatetr suam atqtee eloquentiam commendat.

Dr. McNeile was presented as tir multarum litterarum, who had recently been heard as a Select Preacher in O-ford and whose Introduction to the New Testament had lately been published by the Clarendon Press. Both while he was a tutor at Cambridge and since he had occupied his chair at Dublin he had edited many books of the Bible ita ut nton inodo viros Sacrae Theologiae thyrso instinctos, sed etiam negotiis civilibus vel sacerdotalibus districtos in8trueret et iuvaret. In so difficult a task Dr. McNeile had steered between the Scylla of recondite learning and the Charybdis of haud ingrata neglegentia. As a theologian he had dealt with matters of philosophy, but was content to follow Plato and to say that there were things which nos qui simnulacra sumu,s sneque animni ratione complecti neque stabiZi oratione comprehendere possimnus.

In introducing Dr. Oman, Mr. Poynton expressed regret that his task had not fallen to the lot of a philosopher. Dr. Oman had made it his purpose in hlis books to resolve some of the appa.rent contradictions in the relation of Qod and man. HIimself humanae libertatis tinder ,raeclarus, he would impose on man the task of living so as to accommodate himself to the will of God; ille demum esl sui potens, ille beatus, eui iam nntow vitarn aeternam ita occiepal, ut in coetu vttam titatemn degentiune ritaliter versetur, and thus living...