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Education Life Memberships. 
bodying the results of the examina- 
tion and the various points dealt with 
by the Examiners. 
Education Life Memberships. 
In answer to questions by Mr. 
Fosteb and Earl Cathcabt, 
Lord Mobeton said the Council 
would remember that at the General 
Meeting on May 22 attention was 
drawn to the proposed alteration in 
the regulations of their Senior Ex- 
amination, by which, after the present 
year, the Life Memberships awarded 
in connexion with the Senior Ex- 
amination would be discontinued. 
The Committee had discussed the 
matter for a considerable time on the 
previous afternoon, and they had 
come to the conclusion that it was 
impossible for them to do anything in 
the matter as a Committee, because 
the Council had resolved only a short 
time ago to discontinue the award of 
these Education Life Memberships. 
In some years the standard of excel- 
lence was higher than others, and the 
man who in one year might have been 
placed first might be placed much 
lower down in another year were he 
again to compete. He might say 
that there was a third alternative, 
which personally he thought might 
be the right course to adopt. The 
Secretary had suggested that, instead 
of a hard-and-fast rule, as at present, 
Life Memberships should be given to 
those candidates who gained, say, 
two-thirds of the total marks. That 
seemed to him, and to several other 
members of the Committee, a very 
useful suggestion. 
Mr. Bansome said that, as a 
member of the Education Committee, 
he might say that there was some 
little difference in the Committee as 
to what would be the best course to 
take. They felt that they had no 
power to do anything in the matter 
unless it was referred back to them 
by the Council. He wished, therefore, 
to give notice of the following 
motion : — 
That the resolution of March 7, 1894, by 
which the granting of Life Memberships to 
successful students was abolished, be re- 
scinded, and that it be referred to the Educa- 
tion Committee to consider whether Life 
Memberships of the Society may not in future 
be conferred upon those candidates who gain 
a high percentage of the total number of 
marks. 
Mr. Fosteb said that, having had 
a great deal to do with an agricultural 
college in the North of England, he 
thought this suggestion was preferable 
to the decision arrived at by the 
Council on March 7. 
Mr. Pell thought that the matter 
had better be referred back without 
any suggestion attached to it, which 
might only prove an embarrassment. 
After further discussion, Mr. 
Bansome withdrew the second part 
of his proposed motion, and gave 
notice that at the meeting of Council 
to be held in London on July 25 he 
would move — 
That the resolution of March 7, 1894, by 
which the granting of Life Memberships to 
successful students was abolished, be re- 
scinded. 
Miscellaneous. 
The two suggestions made by 
members at the General Meeting 
having been considered in connexion 
with the reports of the Journal and 
Education Committees respectively, 
and various letters and other docu- 
ments having been laid upon the table, 
the Council adjourned until Wednes- 
day, June 27, 1894, at 3 p.m., in the 
Showyard at Cambridge. It was also 
arranged that the final meeting of 
the Council before the autumn recess 
should be held on W ednesday, July 25, 
1894, instead of August 1, as oii- 
ginally proposed. 
