EXAMINATIONS AND LEGACIES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 3011, 4 August 1916, Page 4

EXAMINATIONS AND LEGACIES.

AND A BIT OF REVENGE. Sydney, July 26. A couple-of months ago Mr. J. P. Brett, member of a well-known firm of solicitors, wrote to the Melbourne University authorities concerning the failure of his son to pass a certain university examination. Mr Brett declared that the paper set at this examination was altogether too severe; referred to the possibility of his son ceasing his university course ; and asked whether the result of the examination must be regarded as final, or whether his son would be given another chance. After some intervening correspondence, Mr Brett wrote to the Council of the university the other day that he had received authority to cancel a legacy of £10,000 to the university for the following reasons : the severity of the entrance examinations, inelastic methods of test at examinations, and refusal to give information. Mr Brett added that besides the legacy of £10,000 which had been annulled, another and much larger legacy, which he had been instrumental in getting for the university, might also be cancelled. The Council, before deciding to make the correspondence available to the press, and to "proceed with other business," indulged in a. few polite but very cutting observations about selling' university standards for legacies, j