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XIX. Paragraph 63.

XX. Paragraph 64.

XXI. Paragraph 69.

It was recorded that this decision should

be subject to the provision that it would

not be put into operation to the prejudice of students who were already taking the

course.

Resolved by a majority vote that unless the financial condition of the University has improved or unless there is a development of advanced work in these departments, the Professorships of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics when they fall vacant, be sus-

pended and that there be substituted for

them Lecturerships or Readerships as the circumstances in each case may dictate.

Resolved (nem.con)

(1) that the Court is aware that present provision for the training of teachers by the University is unsatisfactory in that

there is not sufficient time allowed in the

present organisation of the course for

adequate training of either theory or

practice of teaching.

(2) that the Court welcomes the appoint-

ment by His Excellency the Governor of a

Committee to make proposals for the better recruitment of teachers and for the training of teachers for work in the Colony. Resolved (nem. con) that the Court would

favour an experiment towards recruiting

professors and lecturers for appointments

hereafter to be filled on the following

scale: