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ducted by the teacher, and that they are not competi- 

 tive and have no honour or distinction assigned to 

 them, but are used simply as pass-tests for admission 

 to the degree. The teachers in every university 

 ought, I venture to think, to be professor- examiners, 

 and the student should be admitted to his degree 

 whenever he has obtained the certificate of having 

 passed the class examination of three of such professors. 

 It is not impossible that at some future time the 

 college -lecturers of Oxford and Cambridge will be 

 grouped with the university professors, each repre- 

 senting a special subject or branch of a subject, and 

 such an organisation as that required to make the 

 teaching and examining in these universities profes- 

 sorial may be brought about. That time, however, is 

 undoubtedly remote. In London there is perhaps a 

 better chance of the establishment of a professorial 

 university : it is a chance depending on the report of 

 a Eoyal Commission now sitting. There is no reason 

 why there should not be more than one University in 

 London, it is big enough to occupy several. 



II. With reference to examinations qualifying for 

 admission to a profession, there can, it seems to me, 

 be no question as to their necessity and their harm- 

 lessness, if conducted with certain restrictions. Such 

 examinations ought to be administered by some high 

 authority representing either the profession or the 

 State. The examination should be a single qualify- 

 ing examination in that knowledge necessary for 

 the practice of the profession. There should be 

 no attempt to control the steps of the education of 



