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The Universities of Melbourne and Adelaide have a somewhat 

 similar relationship to affiliated colleges, varying in detail sufficiently 

 to meet the requirements of the local conditions. 



As an evidence of how the principle is appreciated it may be noted 

 that the provision has resulted in three denominational colleges and 

 a woman's college seeking affiliation in the case of Sydney, while in 

 Melbourne, Trinity Church of England College, Ormond Pres- 

 byterian, and Queen's Methodist are duly affiliated to the University, 

 the arrangement being found of great practical advantage to the 

 Churches concerned, especially in the matter of offering facilities for 

 the training of ministers, while the Universities themselves gain at 

 least something in breadth of work and interest. 



The details of arrangements for affiliating colleges have been 

 particularly well worked out in the Melbourne University con- 

 stitution, and are specially worthy of attention, while the provision 

 of well-constituted faculties in law, medicine, and engineering, give 

 that breadth and comprehensiveness to the University work which is 

 always to be desired. 



The declaration setting forth the relationship of an affiliated 

 •college, reads as follows : " The educational establishment herein- 

 before mentioned shall be an educational establishment of and 

 within the University of Melbourne, and be known and distinguished 

 as, say. Trinity College. Provided always that every student at the 

 College shall within six months after he has entered into residence 

 either be matriculated at the University, or be admitted ad eundem 

 statum therein." 



The recognition of lectures in affiliated colleges, is thus provided 

 for : " Students of any college affiliated to the University shall be 

 allowed credit for attendance on such of the course of lectures in 

 that college as shall be recognised in the statute of affiliation, and 

 shall be permitted to proceed to any degree in the University, 

 provided that every such student shall have complied in other 

 respects with the regulations of the University and the conditions of 

 the statute of affiliation." 



These regulations are, in the opinion of some, capable of improve- 

 ment, but that is a detail which need not be discussed here. 



As a practical lesson, it is interesting to note in passing an 

 illustration of how in the face of difficulties one University, that of 

 Adelaide, obtained its legal constitution. An association was formed 

 for the purpose of establishing such a University, through which 

 association a sum of £20,000 was offered and given for endowing 

 two chairs, one for classical and comparative philology and Latin, 

 the other for English language and literature, with mental and moral 



