MR. HERBERT ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)To ask the Secretary of State for India, whether he is aware that no person can obtain a degree in any of the faculties of the Indian Universities without passing the entrance examination, and that this examination is under the control of the Faculty of Arts; and whether, seeing that the Faculty of Arts is the dominant faculty in the Universities, he will take steps that Mr. Justice Tyabji, Mr. Justice Chandravarkar, Mr. Justice Batty, Sir Pherozshah Mehta, the Honourable Mr. Setalwad, and other Fellows of the University should not be excluded from the Faculty of Arts.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The regulations for the constitution of faculties in the Bombay University have under the law to be made by the Senate of that University, of which the gentlemen named in the Question are members. The preparation of rules for examinations also rests with the Senate, and in the preparation of these rules the gentlemen named will have the opportunity of taking part. I see no reason to interfere with the discretion of the University authorities as constituted by law.