The Report of the Commissioners on the question of a
Teaching University for London is a very terse and business- like document, which turns out to be in favour of compromise; and compromise of a rather drastic kind. The reconstitution of the University of London with a much more powerful repre- sentation of the London Teaching Colleges on its Senate is recommended,—which seems a reasonable proposal. But the University is also advised to exempt the students of these Colleges from so many of its preliminary examinations, that if it accede to the Commissioners' suggestions, its responsi- bility for the degrees which it is to give would become far more nominal than real. That last is a very dangerous proposal. It is like asking the Mint to guarantee coins which it has never adequately tested. We hope that the Senate and Convocation of the University will not hastily consent to accept so ambiguous a position.
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