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Preceptors should provide the examiners, hut they never said 
publicly, until at the last meeting, that they wished to have 
the power of appointing the examiners. It would be much 
better for them to let the Council appoint the examiners, so 
that the schools might he perfectly independent. The gen- 
tlemen of the Preceptors’ College would not be biassed in 
any way, and therefore the schools could not gain anything 
by retaining the appointment. 
Mr. Ernes thought if the schools had to pay, as was pro- 
posed in another resolution, they ought to have the right of 
appointment. The Council ought not to have meddled with 
the preliminary examination at all, but should have confined 
themselves to the final examination. The Council had no 
legal right to appoint examiners, and by interfering in the 
question of a preliminary examination they had drawn a 
hornet’s nest about their ears which would give them consi- 
derable trouble. 
The President said the Council was working hand in hand 
with the schools in this matter. 
Professor Brown said when he went with the deputation 
to Camden Town, the President made a proposition to the 
Governors that the Council should appoint a board to 
examine candidates for admission to the College, and he well 
remembered the opposition with which that proposition was 
met. He (Professor Brown) was perfectly satisfied that the 
college at Camden Town would never concede to the Council 
the power of saying who should or who should not enter the 
college. He did not see what difference it could make in 
the examination, whether the examiners were appointed by 
the schools or by the Council. They would be tied down 
to certain subjects in either case, and would he perfectly 
impartial men. 
Mr. Gowing asked if it was the intention of the professors 
at Camden Town to examine the candidates themselves or 
not ? 
Professor Brown said they distinctly stated that their 
intention was to appoint members of the College of Precep- 
tors. 
Mr. Naylor thought the Council should prepare the ques- 
tions, which should be uniform for the three schools. The 
examiners, whether appointed by the schools or by the Coun- 
cil, would then decide which were proper answers. 
The President said it was necessary that this matter should 
be settled very soon, or otherwise the schools would not he able 
to mention it in their prospectuses, in which case it would not 
be considered fair to pluck men who were not aware such an 
