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To conclude, as I am a clergyman, may I add a few words by- 

 way of practical application ? Might not some of those who ,«hare 

 my opinions in this matter hold a meeting during this session of 

 this Association, and might not that meeting agree upon some 

 general lines of concordant action ? For example, might not 

 representatives of each university undertake to bring the question 

 before the senate of each university, and obtain an exjiression of 

 opinion? This, if favorable, might be submitted to the council or 

 governing body for their consideration ; if so approved by both 

 houses the matter would pass from the purely academic stage into 

 the hands of experts, i.e., to the professors. The professors in any 

 particular school could, I believe, without much difficulty formulate 

 a scheme for common adoption by the universities. The changes 

 which they would make need not be great — certainly would not be 

 revolutionary. There would doubtless be some little displacement 

 and adjustments of subjects, but these, as I have already shown, 

 would most probably be a distinct gain to all. 



Some five years ago Professor Morris, with whom I was talking 

 on this question, told me that he had advocated it shortly after his 

 arrival in Australia. I should be sorry to think that so important 

 a question should be indefinitely postponed. If, therefore, I have 

 m>ide good my case, and there be any who are willing to act, 

 might it not be that we should be able to report such progress at 

 the next meeting of this Association as to encourage the hope that 

 the object at which I have been aiming would be within easy 

 reach of attainment ? 



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4.— THE HOME READING UNION. 



By Mrs. WOLSTENHOLME. 



5— THE EDUCATION OF AUSTRALIAN GIRLS. 



By 3Irs. KELSEY. 



(Abstract.) 



Most women had, by the nature of their sex, to be educators. 

 Dealing first with physical education, the writer said that they 

 must place health first, the laws of Avhich were taught by physiology 

 and hygiene, but they must not forget to insist upon those laws 

 being carried out ; else was the teaching useless. Nearly allied to 



