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of course, be the chief executive body, so that the present difficulties 

 — which, in some cases, were rather exaggerated — with that body 

 would remain. If, as the memorandum seemed to contemplate, many 

 more institutions were founded, we should get, as Dr. Jameson said, 

 really an affiliation of High Schools. 



Coming to the federation scheme, Dr. Jameson had pointed out 

 that there were two kinds of federation, the one a federation of all 

 the colleges at present in existence, which wouUl almost imply that any 

 others to be hereafter founded should also be federated. Then there 

 was the other kind of federation — the proposal that the stronger col- 

 leges should federate and become one University. The difficulty in 

 this case was — what were they going to do with the present University ? 

 But before they got to that difficulty there was a still stronger one. 

 If they were going to have a limited federation — a federation of the 

 stronger Colleges — who was going to decide which were the stronger 

 Colleges, and whether a particular College should be admitted to the 

 federation or not? It was all very well to say that before a College 

 was admitted there must be a sufficient equipment and endowment, 

 and a sufficientlv good teaching staff, but who was to decide on these 

 points ? It might be suggested that the Governments should make 

 the selection. The Governments would probably appeal to the 

 Superintendents-General of Education. Such an appeal might put 

 the Superintendents-General in a very invidious position. In Cape 

 Colony, one might suppose, the Superintendent-General considered 

 that all the Colleges were doing sufficiently good work, since he was 

 supporting them all. The difficulty in connection with federation, or 

 one of the difficulties, was the formation of the federated body. 



There were two kinds of federation possible, even if they were 

 to confine themselves to federating the stronger Colleges. There was 

 the ordinary federation which existed in the Victoria University, 

 and which he believed existed now in the University of Wales ; in 

 fact, he believed the University of Wales was now practically the only 

 tvpe of Federal University in existence. He described the nature of 

 the examination system in the University of Wales. Practically, the 

 examinations were the same. Slight alterations were allowed, but the 

 examinations were practically common to the three Colleges which 

 formed the University. 



But there was a totally different proposal in connection with 

 federation which had been put forward by the Victoria College, 

 Stellenbosch, and he did not think that had been taken into account 

 by Prof. Jameson. It would therefore be interesting to point out 

 what their scheme was. 



(The speaker here read the leading features of the Memor- 

 andum on University Reform, issued by the Council and Senate 

 of the Victoria College.) 



A federal system had undoubtedly caught the public fancy. 

 Anyone who was present, as he was, at the discussion by the Con- 

 vocation of the University on the different schemes, could see that 

 unquestionablv the federation scheme commended itself to the public. 

 The idea which appeared to be taken up was that as a matter of 



