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out, it had a certain amount of educational influence on the 
student, and did him good. It was a serious question, inasmuch 
as it would lay on the practical examiner a good deal of onus, 
which was at present borne by the whole Court of Examiners. He 
did not think it would be much benefit to the College, but it 
would save a little by diminishing the number of students who 
came up for examination in the evening. It was a question, 
however, whether the students might not claim the right to 
undergo the whole of the examination, although they knew they 
would ultimately be rejected. Unless the bye-laws were mate¬ 
rially altered, and the students were given to understand that 
they would have no power to come up for the full examination, 
he did not think the Council had a right to refuse them such 
examination. 
Mr. Greaves thought he saw the force of the President’s 
argument, that by telling the student when he had failed in his 
practical examination, he need not go any further, and that even 
if he was examined by the whole of the examiners the one ‘‘ Bad ” 
of the practical examination would cause him to be rejected in 
the end. It would save a good deal of waste of time and waste 
of money. At the same time he could see the force of Mr. 
Eleming’s remarks that it would throw the onus on the practical 
examiners, an onus which would probably be more than any two 
or three examiners would like to take upon themselves. He 
thought it was right that something should be done to impress 
upon the teachers as well as the students the great importance of 
the latter obtaining a practical knowledge, without which they 
would be rejected. If nothing else resulted from the President’s 
motion, it would excite the feeling that it was absolutely neces¬ 
sary that a practical knowledge should be obtained on the part of 
the student to a greater extent than w T as the case at the present 
time. He thought that the President’s motion, with some slight 
alterations, would, if carried, be of very great importance. 
The President thought that the feeling of the members of 
Council seemed to be generally against his motion, and he would 
therefore withdraw it. He had himself no feeling in the matter. 
The subject then was allowed to drop. 
It was arranged that the candidates for the Eellowship Degree 
should be examined immediately at the termination of the July 
examinations. 
Members of Council. 
The following gentlemen were proposed as Members of Council 
he ensuing year :— 
proposed Mr. Dray and also 
Mr. J. Roalfe Cox 
The President 
Mr. Dray 
„ Prof. Simonds 
Mr. Coates 
„ Mr. Jas. C. Broad 
Mr. Dacre 
„ Mr. Wm. Whittle 
Mr. Geo. Carless 
„ Mr. Henry J. Cartwright 
Mr. Batt 
„ Mr. Jas. Moon 
