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among the professors of the University colleges. I think it wrong that any professor or lecturer should be placed in the exceedingly difficult position of having to pronounce upon the relative merits of his own students and others educated at rival colleges. I think it not unlikely that this difficulty will lead to the breakdown of the scheme, and will precipitate the establishment of four or more distinct Universities. I think further that it is unwise to condemn the plan of conducting the examination by means of printed papers furnished by examiners resident in England, and forwarded by them through the post, until that plan has been fairly tried and proved to be unworkable. I believe that in all subjects except physical and natural science, such a mode of examination would be perfectly satisfactory, and that any inconvenience arising from the delay of a few weeks in the publication of the results would be amply compensated by the unimpeachable character of the examination. G. S. Sale. I concur with the above. —James Hector. I am of opinion that the affiliation of existing educational institutions to the University should not cease immediately upon the coming into operation of the Act dealing with the University and establishing the proposed colleges, but that it should remain in force until the new colleges are actually established. James Hector. I do not approve of this report. W. H. Cutten.

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