realization of the difficulties as well as at the risk of saying much that is obvious. The background must be filled in by the reader from the remarks made in the preceding chapter on the Oxford life. The point of view of the prospective Rhodes Scholar has been kept in view throughout, all unnecessary details or obscure and ambiguous terms being, as far as possible, avoided. [Sidenote: University government and administration. Vice-Chancellor, Proctors.] The acting head of the University is the Vice-Chancellor, the office of Chancellor being purely honorary. The Heads of the several Colleges are nominated by the Chancellor to the Vice-Chancellorship in order of rotation, each holding office for a period of four years. Assisted by the two Proctors, originally the heads of the two ‘nations’ of mediaeval Oxford, the Vice-Chancellor exercises a general supervision over all University affairs. It is the Vice-Chancellor who presides at all the meetings of the governing bodies of the University. He also enjoys extensive judicial powers. The University occupies a peculiar position not only in relation to its own members, but to the city of Oxford as well. In most criminal as well as in all civil cases, the University has the right to try its members before its own court, popularly called the Vice-Chancellor’s Court. The Vice-Chancellor, ably assisted by the two Proctors—for in the eyes of the undergraduates this is their most conspicuous function—is responsible for the maintenance of order and discipline. No public entertainment, for instance, can be held in Oxford without the consent of the Vice-Chancellor and of the Mayor. [Sidenote: Convocation.] [Sidenote: Congregation.] [Sidenote: Hebdomadal Council.] [Sidenote: ‘Statuta.’]