With regard to examinations, it is proposed to make Greek
an optional subject, and to substitute an Entrance Examina- tion for Responsions. Suggestions are made to meet the case of poor students by the reduction of College expenses, and by the raising of a fund to assist non-collegiate students ; but the Committee "found no indication of a desire for a distinctively Working Men's College within the University, and the Council does not think that either a Working Men's College or a College for Poor Men as such is desirable." To meet the admitted want of a central financial authority, it is proposed to constitute a new Finance Board, with "advisory and supervisory" functions. The Council has adopted a resolution in favour of constructing a scheme for a diploma suitable for candidates contemplating a commercial career, and approves of legislation directed towards removing University examinations outside full term. Legislation is promised in the coming term, when the draft statutes on com- pulsory Greek and on Faculties will probably come before Congregation. We deal with the scheme elsewhere, but may note with satisfaction Lord Curzon's assurance that its promoters have no desire to build a new Oxford on the ruins of the old.
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