7493.  Would  you  also  add  the  separate  examinations  for  the  different
universities  P — ^Yes,

7491.  Then  it  would  be,  in  your  opinion,  desirable  that  one  examination
should  open  the  door  to  all  the  universities  ? — Of  course  there  would  be
two  kinds — a  higher  and  a  lower.  I  shotlld  like  to  see  one  for  the  first  grade
secondary  schools  which  should  admit  to  the  universities,  and  also  admit
to  the  legal  profession  and  the  medical  profession,  aod  the  general
examinations  for  those  professions.  In  the  second  grade  schools  I  should
have  another  on  a  lower  level.  ^

7495.  But  you  would  wish  to  see  the  first  series  of  examinations  that
you  speak  of  made  on  one  line,  and  that  the  passing  of  that  examination
should  open  the  doors  of  all  the  universities  ? — Yes.
7496.  As  well  as  the  doors  of  the  legal  and  medical  professions  ? — ^Yes.
7497.  You  would  wish  to  have,  in  fact,  a  uniformity  of  standard  ? — A
imiformity  of  standard,  with  the  greatest  diversity  of  subjects  consistent
with  that  uniformity.
7498.  Then,  if  that  were  the  case,  the  examinations  would  not  be  con-
ducted, I  presume,  by  the  authorities  of  each  school,  but  by  some  more

general  authority  over  the  country  ? — I  do  not  see  why  there  should  not
e  general  lines  for  the  examination  laid  down,  and  then  the  authorities  of
each  school  conduct  it  with,  as  I  said,  an  assessor  from  the  Central  Board
or  outsider,  to  whom  the  papers  set  should  be  referred  and  who  would
check  the  results  as  given  by  the  particular  headmaster.
