§ Mr. DICKINSONasked the Secretary to the Treasury the date of the conference of university representatives with reference to the syllabus of the Class I. examination as mentioned in the reply given by the First Civil Service Commissioner to Question 579 at the meeting of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service held on 27th March, 1912; and will he state the names of the representatives, the universities they represented, the academic degrees held by such representatives, and the universities by which such degrees were granted?
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§ Mr. MASTERMANThe conference on the scheme of the examination for Class I. Clerkships in the Civil Service was held on the 18th November, 1903.
Universities represented, and names of representatives were as follows:—
Oxford—Professor E. Caird, LL.D. St. Andrews and Glasgow, D.C.L. Oxford, D. Lit. Cambridge and Wales, etc.; J. L. Strachan-Davidson, M.A. Oxford, LL.D. Glasgow and St. Andrews, etc.
Cambridge—Dr. J. N. Keynes, M.A., D.Sc. Cambridge; W. L. Mollison, M.A. Cambridge, LL.D. Aberdeen.
Durham—Rev. H. P. Gurney, D.C.L.
Manchester—E. Fiddes, M.A. Cambridge, Manchester, Aberdeen.
Liverpool—Professor John McCunn, LL.D.
London—Dr. R. D. Roberts, M.A., B.Sc. Cambridge, D.Sc. London.
Edinburgh—Professor W. R. Hardie, M. A. Edinburgh and Oxford.
Glasgow—Professor R. Latta, M.A., D.Phil. Edinburgh.
St. Andrews—Professor J. Burnet, M.A. Oxford, LL.D. Edinburgh and Ph.D. Prague, etc.
Aberdeen—Rev. G. Pirie, LL.D.
Trinity College, Dublin—Dr. J. P. Mahaffy, D.D., Mus. Doc. Dublin, D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. St. Andrews, etc.
Royal University of Ireland—Rev. W. Delany, LL.D., R.U.I.
I fear that complete information as regards the degrees held by the representatives is not available.