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THERE was a certain inevitableness in the nomination of Mr. Arthur James Balfour for the Chancellor, ship of Cambridge University. The fact that Mr. Balfour has consented to be so nominated in sue-cession, to his late brother-in-law has everywhere been received with enthusiasm. In the history of Cambridge, statesmen, administrators, literary men, and philosophers, have, succeeded one after, another in the roll of Chancellors, but in Mr. Balfour, the most celebrated of living graduates of Cambridge University, all are combined, in o one o man. Mr. Balfour is one of the two honorary fellows of Trinity College, the other being the Right, Hon. G. O. Trevelyan. Mr. Balfour was educated at Eton, and entered Trinity College in the late sixties. He took his degree in the Moral Sciences Tripos of 1896, in the same year as Dr. Percy Gardner, now the professor of archaeology at Oxford, The Balfour family has been most intimately associated Vith Cambridge; his younger brother Francis, who unhappily perished in the Alps in 1882, was a man of the highest scientific distinction, one who was leading zoologists along new lines of thought; another brother, Gerald, was a fellow, of Trinity one of his sisters married. Prof. Henry Sidgwick, and was for many years, Principal of Newnham College; and another sister married Lord Rayleigh, whose recent death has deprived the University of a generous Chancellor and a great pioneer in modern physics. A reference to “Who's Who” will show not only the list of honorary degrees, too long to be quoted here, which have been conferred upon Mr. Balfour, but also that he has constantly, taken the lead on Various boards and committees connected with education. He has, been Lord Rector of St. Andrews University, Lord. Rector of Glasgow University, and he is Chancellor of Edinburgh University. The announcement that so distinguished a man and cholar has consented to be nominated for the post of Chancellor has met with widespread sympathy and hope amongst the members of the Senate.