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syllabuses and examinations of London and the newer universities as 
being essentially school courses and examinations for first-grade schools 
with a high leaving age. Some consider that boys who pass the 
Intermediate Examination at school should be allowed to take their 
degree after two years’ residence at the university, and point out the 
relief this would give to parents of limited means; others, including 
the head-masters of two large well-known schools in two of the largest 
county boroughs, consider that no examination passed at school should 
reduce the university course below three years, though some of these 
would allow the degree examination, but not the degree, to be taken 
at the end of two years; others are of opinion that all boys who have 
passed the Intermediate Examination whilst at school should be 
required to read for an honours degree at the university. 
The head-master of a large school in the North writes: ‘ So far as 
my experience goes, the overlapping produces no unsatisfactory result. 
The pupils who pass on to the universities express satisfaction that 
their school studies have been carried on beyond the matriculation 
standard. Such pupils are impressed by the rapidity and condensation 
in the treatment of subjects by the university professors. Further, the 
points of view of university and school are sometimes necessarily and 
beneficially different.’ 
Several head-masters complain that some of the newer universities 
do work below matriculation standard, and there is practical unanimity 
of opinion that no boys ought to be allowed, as they often are, to take 
up residence at a university, whether old or new, until they have 
actually passed the examination required for matriculation. Others 
state that the work of a good upper sixth form is little, if at all, below 
the standard at present required for a pass degree. 
Boys’ ScHoous IN ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTIES. 
The head-masters of many schools in small towns and in the 
country state that their work does not overlap at all with that of 
higher institutions. Although under their schemes they may keep 
pupils until seventeen or eighteen, few reach matriculation standard, 
and very few go beyond it. Most of the pupils leave before they 
reach the age of sixteen. 
Some of these schools, however, send a small proportion of pupils 
to the universities or larger technical institutions, and many of these 
pupils, after passing a Matriculation Examination, will continue at 
school in order to compete for a University Scholarship, and some- 
times, but rarely, a Loy will pass the Intermediate Examination while 
still at school. In these cases the overlapping is of course of the 
same nature as in the large towns, and the opinions of the head- 
masters are practically identical with those already quoted. There is 
no desire that the minimum age for passing the Matriculation Exam+ 
nation should be raised. 
Grats’ Scnoois 1n County Borouacus. 
In the larger secondary schools in the large towns a fair number 
of girls remain after passing a Matriculation Examination, but by no 
means all of them intend to proceed to a university. Those who do 
