Some Eloquent Figures

New Zealand Tablet, 24 December 1908, Page 35

Some Eloquent Figures

There are some figures (says the Catholic Times) which speak, volumes "in a very small" space. Of - such are" the figures which give in a'little: table the results* so far as tho students of the ' approved colleges' are concerned, of the Honors Examinations.in Arts of the Royal University of Ireland. Tlie Very Rev. Dr. Delany, S.J., who supplies the table to the Times, sets forth in a separate colum/i the relative cost to public funds of the: approved colleges. We find accordingly that whilst University <College, : Dublin, carried off 78 first cless Honors and prizes, the number won by the Queen's CoUege^; Belfast, the Queen's College, Galway, the Queen's College,. Cork,, and Magee College' Derry, number together only 20; that University College, has to-its credit 85 second-class, honors and prizes, and the other four colleges together 46; and that whereas the-total for the Dublin College is 163, the total for the ""three Queen's Colleges and Magee College is only 86. Not less striking is the financial contrast. Whilst the cost to the public funds of the Queen's and Magee Colleges is £25,400, University College; gets only £6000 from the same source. -Supporters of. the Belfast'College have been grumbling because the new Belfast University, which is identical with it, receives only £28,000 a year, though the Dublin University obtains £32,000. Let, them propose that the grants should be regulated by merit as testedjjy., results.