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IN a Congregation held at Oxford on Feb. 10, Prof. H. Smith introduced a statute providing that the certificate of the examiners appointed under the authority of the Delegates of the Examination of Schools, when given in Greek, Latin, and Elementary Mathematics, be accepted in lieu of Responsions. He represented that in Mathematics the standard would be higher than in Responsions; in Greek and Latin it would be equal, owing to the requirement of translation of “unseen pieces.”The candidate would also have to pass in some other subject. It was therefore inconceivable that the idle should select the Schools Examination as the easier. The standard would be kept up by the employment of the same class of examiners as in other University examination. The preamble of the statute was accepted.