Nor would it be a matter of much difficulty.

The united societies would form a nucleus: one of the class-rooms at first, and perhaps afterwards the great hall above the library, might be the place of meeting.

There would be no want of attendance or enthusiasm, I am sure; for it is a very different thing to speak under the bushel of a private club on the one hand, and, on the other, in a public place, where a happy period or a subtle argument may do the speaker permanent service in after life.

Such a club might end, perhaps, by rivalling the 'Union' at Cambridge or the 'Union' at Oxford..