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Medicine ; also for improving and extending the oppor- 

 tunities for scientific study and research, and for increas- 

 ing the facilities for acquiring a knowledge of History, 

 Economics, English Literature, and Modern Languages, and 

 such other subjects cognate to a technical or commercial 

 education as can be brought within the scope of the 

 University curriculum. . . ." 



The word " other " shows that the specified Arts subjects 

 are included as cognate to a technical or commercial 

 education, but the Faculties of Science and Medicine, and 

 scientific study and research, participate on their own 

 merits independently, and not as subserving or ministering 

 to a technical or commercial education. It is recognised 

 by the clause that technical or commercial education 

 can only to a limited extent be brought within the 

 scope of the present university curriculum. That it is 

 technical and commercial education rather than the 

 subjects of the present university curriculum that are to be 

 benefited is further shown by the concluding paragraph 

 of Clause B, which deals primarily with the payment of 

 students' fees : 



" In the case of Schools or Institutions in Scotland 

 established to provide Technical or Commercial Educa- 

 tion, the Committee may recognise classes which, though 

 outside the present range of the university curriculum, 

 can be accepted as doing work of a University level, 

 and may allow them and the students thereof to participate 

 under both A and B to such an extent as the Committee 

 may from time to time determine." 



It is thus natural to inquire in the cases to which I 

 directed attention in which scientific and medical studies 

 had not received a due share of the moneys, whether 

 technical or commercial education has received it. It 

 is only necessary to reiterate a specific instance. In the 

 University of Aberdeen the scientific and medical subjects 

 Chemistry, Inorganic, Organic, Physical, Agricultural, 

 Physiological, and Technological; Physics, Mathematical 

 and Experimental ; Mathematics ; Astronomy ; Engineer- 



