§ MR. SYDNEY BUXTON (Tower Hamlets, Poplar)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, What was the result of the inquiry instituted by the Education Department, through Her Majesty's Inspector of Training Colleges, into the disturbances which lately took place at Exeter College; whether it appeared that the complaints of the second year students respecting the instruction in mathematics were well founded; whether the Principal was justified in rusticating two students; and, whether any subsistence allowance has been made to these students during their enforced absence from the College?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)Apart altogether from the question of the capacity of a mathematical lecturer, there is no doubt that gross acts of insubordination were committed by students of the College. The Principal, in my opinion, was justified in rusticating two students, who have, so far as I can judge, no claim to a subsistence allowance. The Inspector, after holding his inquiry, has suggested a re-arrangement in regard to the lecturers at the College, and we have written in support of the suggestion to the authorities.