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 To a few topics relevant to this subject of educational reorganisation I shall request brief attention.

1. The status of the Mufassal Colleges, styled the Affiliated Colleges, under the new Act has been a subject of discussion. Is there any ground for the apprehension that the new scheme would tell adversely on this class of educational institutions? It has been urged that Colleges of this denomination retain an altogether unaltered, if not a somewhat improved, petition in relation to the University to which they are affiliated. But the real issue is, how does the translation of colleges within a certain area into Constituent Colleges determine the position of the rest? Do these latter stand, as they did before, on a footing of equality with the former? Is the division of the Colleges in this Presidency into Constituent and Affiliated Colleges a distinction without a difference? Are the advantages—the special facilities and opportunities—of a teaching and residential system, of negligible educational value? Or does not the existence of these