SECOND SCHEME OF CONVOCATION.

SECTION I.-University.

The University to consist of:

(a) Senate, (b) Convocation, (c) Constituent Colleges, (d) Council of Education.

SECTION II.-Senate.

The Senate to consist of :

(a) Chancellor to be appointed by the Crown, (b) Vice-Chancellor to be elected by the Senate annually from amongst its Members, (c) The following Members ex-officio: Chairman of Convocation, Chairman of Council of Education, Chairman of each of the four Boards of Studies, (d) Ordinary Members to be appointed as follows: 6 by the Crown, 8 by Convocation, 4 by the Council of Education, I by each of the seven following Institutions : University College, King's College, Royal Society, Royal College of Physicians of London, Royal College of Surgeons of England, Council of Legal Education, Council of Incorporated Law Society.

The ordinary Members to hold office for a period of four years, and to be re-eligible. The Senators elected by Convocation to be elected by Members of Convocation voting in their respective Faculties. Two Members to be elected by the Members of each of the four Faculties.

The Senate to have the control and management of the University.

SECTION III.-Convocation.

Convocation to remain constituted as at present, with such increased powers as are herein referred to

SECTION IV.-Constituent Colleges.

The Constituent Colleges to consist of Educational Bodies in or near London, together with other Institutions or Colleges not affiliated as Constituent Colleges to any other University and having one or more Faculties of University rank; and to be

(a) Such Bodies as may be named in a Schedule to be settled by a Joint Committee of the Senate and Convocation;

(b) Such other Bodies as may be hereafter admitted by the Senate with the concurrence of a Joint Committee of Convocation and the Council of Education.

On the admission of each Constituent College it shall be determined to what Faculty or Faculties it shall belong and in what mode it shall be represented on the Council of Education, and such terms may be subsequently revised by the Senate, with the concurrence of a Joint Committee of Convocation and the Council of Education.

The Senate to have power, with the like concurrence, for good cause to remove any College from being a Constituent College.

The Institutions from which the University receives Certificates for Degrees in Medicine to retain their right of giving such Certificates whether they be Constituent Colleges or not, the list of such Institutions to be subject to the existing power of revision, but the Senate not to report thereon without the like concurrence.

(a) Representatives of Convocation; (b) Representatives of the Constituent Colleges; (c) the Examiners of the University.

The Representatives of Convocation to be Members of Convocation, and to be elected by the Members of Convocation voting in their respective Faculties. Convocation to elect one-fourth of the total number of the Members of Council.

The Representatives of the Constituent Colleges to be Professors or persons engaged in giving instruction of University rank.

The Representatives of Convocation on the Council of Education to hold office for a period of four years, and to be re-eligible.

The Council of Education to advise the Senate on all matters connected with the subjects of Examination and the teaching thereof.

The Council of Education to appoint a Chairman annually.

The Council of Education to appoint from among its Members standing Committees or Boards of Studies, one in each of the four Faculties, and also to have power to appoint Special Committees as it sees fit. Each Board to appoint a Chairman annually.

Each Board of Studies to consider matters connected with its own Faculty and to report thereon to the Council of Education.

SECTION VI.—Provisions for Promotion of Higher Education.

The University to have power to hold real property and to accept gifts, devises and legacies for the purposes of the University.

The Senate to take steps to secure to the University a fixed endowment from the State in lieu of the present annual grant, with power of exclusive control over its application and expenditure.

The Senate to have power to appoint Professors, Lecturers and Examiners in any branch of knowledge, to subsidise or endow laboratories, libraries, and museums, to make grants out of the funds of the University for the purpose of research, and to assist by any other means in promoting higher education. The Senate to have power to confer honorary Degrees.

SECTION VII.-Supplementary Provisions.

The existing Members of the Senate to continue. The Crown not to appoint any new Members until the number of the present Crown nominees

is reduced to five, and then to nominate from time to time to vacancies occurring in any of its six places.

Convocation at once to elect one moiety of its complement of Members to the Senate, and to the Council of Education respectively, and at the end of two years to elect the other moiety, and each Faculty to fill up from time to time vacancies occurring in the number of its Representatives.

The Council of Education when constituted to elect its complement of Members to the Senate, two of whom, to be determined by ballot, shall retire at the end of two years, and the Council of Education to fill up from time to time vacancies occurring in the number of its Representatives.

All elections by Convocation under this Scheme to be by Voting Papers.

In compliance with an influentially signed requisition an Extraordinary Meeting of Convocation was held on 25th May, 1886, to consider the report and scheme put forward by Mr. Magnus's committee. The reception of the report was moved by Mr. Magnus and seconded by Mr. Anstie and at once agreed to, and the same gentlemen then proceeded to move a series of carefully framed resolutions, embodying the essential features of the scheme. The mover pointed out that the report embodied the views of the whole Committee and not of any one member only, and claimed that it was based upon resolutions passed by Convocation long before the idea of a Teaching University had taken practical shape, and further that by involving the affiliation of Provincial Colleges and not restricting the scope of the reformed University to those in or near London only, as was proposed in Lord Justice Fry's scheme, that a distinct advantage had been gained. It may, however, be observed that the previous resolutions adopted by Convocation in 1878 (pp. 21-27) were sufficiently wide and comprehensive to include the scheme to which Mr. Magnus had led the opposition as well as his own. No specially fresh arguments were adduced either by those who supported the proposals or by those who opposed them. The claim of teachers and of teaching institutions to be brought more directly into connection with the University were repeated on the one side, and the dread of the predominance of the teachers and the loss of Convocation's privileges, as well as the fear that the interests of those students unattached to any College should suffer from want of proper representation, were

again adduced on the other side; all of which had been said over and over again on previous occasions. Although the opposition succeeded in making a strenuous fight, and even prolonged the discussion to such a length that it was necessary to adjourn the meeting until 29th June, in the end Mr. Magnus's scheme was carried as printed above, except that the power proposed to be given to the Senate to confer honorary degrees was negatived. Finally, it was resolved "That the Report and Scheme be adopted as a basis of conference with the Senate, and that the Special Committee be reappointed with power to confer with the Senate thereon".

Thus was Convocation committed to the advocacy of a course that meant a complete revolution of the principle of keeping examining and teaching apart, as hitherto pursued by the University. Supported so strongly as it had been by the University's former member, Lord Sherbrooke, it had come in the minds of some to assume the proportions of an educational fetish. It is noteworthy that at this stage Convocation by its action preferred to meet the growing demands of teachers, though not to the extent sought for by the extremists, rather than to allow by an attitude of complete resistance the establishment of a second University in London. Several speakers were strong upon this point, though a few on the contrary appeared to be quite content to let matters remain as they were, and thought enough had been heard of a scheme for a Teaching University. At the same time the majority made it perfectly clear that in the opinion of many of them the alteration in the character of the University's work was not to be such as to lower the standard of the degrees, however much they might be made more accessible. and brought into line with the teaching. But although so momentous a change had now been proposed to the Senate by Convocation, it is not to be supposed that the great body of graduates had exhibited any special interest in the proceedings, the discussion on each occasion having been restricted to very much the same members, and on no occasion were the meetings large, having regard to the numbers of Con

vocation.

As affecting the interests of medical education, the several metropolitan medical schools and those in the provinces not yet affiliated to any other University would become constituent Colleges of the University of London, and, as such, appoint representatives on the Council of Education, thus bringing their influence to bear upon the reformed Senate, though the function of the Council was nothing more than that of an advisory body. The separation of those members of the Council of Education concerned with medical matters into a Board of Studies would offer the opportunity for the fullest discussion of the many problems of medical education and examination that would arise, and the possibility of arriving at some greater uniformity in these matters, which was so much to be desired. Much also was to be hoped from the power the Senate would acquire, under the scheme, of receiving funds, from which laboratories, museums and libraries might be subsidised and University Professorships endowed. Such were the advantages for the Medical Faculty rendered possible by the proposed scheme, which could not fail to attract more students to work for a University degree, whatever the standard of attainment that might be required. In this way the plan proposed became a strong competitor to the course so warmly advocated in many quarters, that the Royal Colleges should seek to obtain powers to confer a degree in medicine, a subject that was now under consideration both within and without those institutions. But it was one thing to pass Convocation, it was quite another to secure the approval of the Senate without which, of course, the scheme remained so much waste paper. That august body had hitherto taken but scant notice of previous recommendations on these lines, and it was with anxiety that those interested waited to see how these more detailed suggestions would be met. Some, indeed great, hope was based upon the fact that Sir Edward Fry, Mr. Henry Mathews (now Lord Llandaff), Dr. Pye Smith and Dr. Wilks had all become members of the Senate, the first three as Crown representatives, within the past year, and all had taken a more or less active. part in urging these reforms both in Convocation and in the Councils