The meeting of the London University Convocation, on I Tuesday,
ended only in an adjournment of the debate. Lord Justice Fry, in an able though rather rhetorical speech, pre- dicted all sorts of advantages to the University if it would but adopt his revised Constitution of the Executive of the University, —the chief advantage being that it would bring the University into close harmony with the teaching bodies in London, and so enable it to observe what the defects of the teaching staff in London are, and what are the lacvnce to be filled up eventually by the appointment of University Professors. Mr. Savory disclaimed most energetically for himself any wish to lower the standard of the medical degrees, and declared that he would not only not advocate, but strenuously oppose, any scheme which was intended to have that effect. The extreme complexity of the scheme was then commented on by several graduates, especially by Mr. Magnus and Mr. Fitch, who, in speeches of great weight, dissuaded Convocation from adopting a scheme which was not even offered as more than a foretaste of the intentions of the Association for Establishing a Teaching University in London, the substantial parts of whose proposals are still kept in reserve. The adjournment was agreed upon by a large majority.
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