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The question then arises as to how the reception of students 
might be controlled and organized. A simple resolution or bill 
in Congress, authorizing the scientific bureaus to admit, sub- 
ject to the approval of the director and chief of division, such 
students as they may find qualified, and who can be employed 
with advantage to the work of the bureau, would be all the 
legislation that is needed; unless Congress should require that 
their presence should involve the government in no expense 
or responsibility, and authorize the officers above mentioned 
to make rules to cover the conditions. As these are different in 
each laboratory, the rules should be left to the authorities of 
each laboratory. The function of the university, as such, in 
the case of these students would then be limited, as in the case 
of London University, to a determination of their qualifications 
and the issuing of an equivalent degree, not necessarily by oral 
examination, but on the record of work accomplished, if it 
proved desirable. For such men the acquisition of the qualifi- 
cations should regulate the duration of study, not some arbi- 
trary period of time. The Director of the bureau should be 
authorized to accept or reject students, because he is responsible 
for the work of the bureau, and the Chief of division because 
upon him falls the responsibility for the success and proper ` 
conduct of his own divisional work, and whatever labor and 
time is required to direct and utilize the student. The position 
of the Chief of division with relation to the student and the 
university will then be that of a tutor or docent, and in return 
for his services to the student the university should provide a 
modest honorarium which might be refunded to the university 
by the student, or deducted from the amount of a scholarship 
if the student held one, or paid by the university as endow- 
ment of research. It would be better that no private arrange- 
ment between teacher and pupil should be permitted, but that 
such transactions should be handled by the university authori- 
ties, for obvious reasons. If the university were a govern- 
ment institution, it could not pay fees to any government 
official under the present law, which is not likely to be changed. 
It would be obviously unjust to add to the regular official duties 
of a laboratory chief the responsibility involved in the recep- 
