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ROYAL COLLEGE OF VETERINARY SURGEONS. 
students may be safely left in tbe bands of the Examiners, and as 
the student has paid a fee to cover the whole o£ the Examination, 
both practical and oral, he should be subjected to both tests. If a 
student is only detective in the practical and fully equipped in the 
theoretical and scientific, I do not think that such a student 
ought to be rejected. On the other hand, if the student is 
defective both in the practical and scientific, no sympathy should 
be shown, and the full extent of his defects made known to him. 
(Signed) Jas. McCall. 
The President said that the motion of which he had given 
notice was a very small question indeed. The fact was that if a 
candidate got “ Bad ” in any subject the Board of Examiners 
always rejected him however good he might be in others. He 
might get an “Insufficient,” or two “Insufficients,” but if he 
got a “ Bad” he was actually rejected. The practical examina¬ 
tions took place in the morning and the result of these was 
known before the Court of Examiners met, and it was too 
much to ask them to go on with the examination of a young man 
whose rejection they knew of beforehand. There might be some 
advantages to the candidates themselves in going up for further 
examination ; but as it was the invariable rule to reject all 
candidates who got a “ Bad and as at 4 or 5 o’clock in the 
afternoon it was known who had got a “ Bad,” at the Practical 
it seemed to him that their going up was a waste of time of the 
examiners. 
In answer to Mr. Taylor , 
The President said that the rule was that any one “ Bad ” 
always rejected a student, any mark below the “ Minimum” was 
the same as “ Bad.” 
Mr. Taylor said that students going through the whole examina¬ 
tion received a certain amount of education. It was no doubt 
imprudent for them to come up for examination unless thev were 
thoroughly educated, but if they paid the fee asked it was only 
justice and equity that they should be allowed to be examined on 
the whole of the subjects. 
Mr. Fleming said he felt the force of Mr. Taylor’s remarks. 
In the first place there was a Chairman of the Board of Examiners, 
and there was also the Board of Examiners who would decide as 
to the merit of each candidate in the evening, and it was a serious 
question whether the examiners who examined on the practical 
subjects in the morning should have the power, without the 
sanction of other members of the Board, to reject a student. In 
the second place, the student paid a certain sum to meet the 
expenses of the whole examination, and to stop the student at a 
portion of his examination and say that he would not come up 
for the remainder, raised a rather serious question which ought 
to be duly considered. He maintained that although a student 
was bad in his practical examination and the examination after¬ 
wards ended in rejection, nevertheless, as Mr. Taylor pointed 
