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have to deal with students who have had no training in the exact 

 and orderly expression of their ideas. 



Our main intention is not, however, to offer detailed suggestions, 

 but to express our belief that this question of the adaptation of 

 secondary education to modern conditions involves problems 

 that should not be left to individual effort, or even to public legis- 

 lative control ; that it is rather a subject in which the Universities 

 of the United Kingdom might be expected to lead the way and exert 

 their powerful influence for the benefit of the nation. 



October 1903. 



PRESIDENTS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY 



The President is elected annually, and until recent years was 

 eligible for re-election without any limit of time. About thirty 

 years ago an unwritten law was established, by which the President, 

 after having served five years, does not permit himself to be re- 

 nominated for the office, thus restricting the maximum term of 

 office to five years. 



Name Date of Years in 



election. office. 



William, Lord Viscount Brouncker . 1663 14 



Sir Joseph Williamson, Kt. . . 1677 3 



Sir Christopher Wren, Kt. . . 1680 2 



Sir John Hoskins, Bart. . . . 1682 i 



Sir Cyril Wyche, Kt. 1683 I 



Samuel Pepys ..... 1684 2 

 John, Earl of Carbery (Lord 



Vaughan) . . . 1686 3 



Thomas, Earl of Pembroke, K.G. . 1689 i 



Sir Robert Southwell, Kt. . . 1690 5 

 Charles Montague (later Earl of 



Halifax) 1695 3 



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