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    mine into the qualifications of the schoolmaster , when the examination of the pupil is or ought to be the only teat . If the principal is not qualified , which may , in some instances , he ths case , a regard for his own interest will make him careful to select competent masters to prepare his pupils for the exami * nation , or parents will not intrust their children to his care .

    The pptUfion states , that by thus limiting the privilege , *? the influence which this University would otherwise possess , will be curtailed in an incalculable measure , " and a moment ' s cefflLsideration will show that such is the fact . The Board of Examiners will , it is presumed , consist of mfcji

    of the first character for literary and scientific attainments . The subjects of examination will be made known , and the examination itself open to the public . Every schoolmaster and every private tutor in the kingdom will be desirous that his pupils should be able to attain the honours of the University , and will make his own arrangements , and adapt their studies to this object . And thus , with the present machinery , without

    interfering with vested rights , hy the simplest means , a national system of education of the highest character may be introduced * That it is not the professors who object to the privilege being extended , is evident from the address to the Senate of November the 14 th , 1835 , in which the person emoloved to

    prepare it says , " By the proposed arrangement we shall gain all the advantages of competition between the students of the University and of King ' s College , and of every other place of education which may be eventually associated with them . There is nothing by which our general schools has been so much kept back as by the circumstance that our pupils have

    had no opportunity of measuring themselves with those educated elsewhere . The professors are so confident that their pupils are taught soundly that they have always earnestly desired to see them fairly matched before skilful examiners , and they have no doubt that the result will raise the reputation of the University . Even if other friends of the University are less confident , they should desire . still more anxiously that the ability and industry of the professors should be put to the teat . If , unfortunately , any of our chairs should at any time be

    filled by an . inefficient professor , the fact would soon be exposed by the ill success of his pupils in the public examinations . But if our examinations are confined to our own walls , and our students never compared with those taught elsewhere , the deficiency of the teacher may be concealed for along time . It is unnecessary to dwell upon the obvious consideration , that competition with the pupils of other institutions will excite in

    our students a stronger spirit of emulation , and an emulation more generous , because less selfish , than if the Qauipetitipo were only within our own classes . But it mu * t not be O ¥ W »

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    Metropolitan University . 171

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/43/