Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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The English system, as is well known, has for its corner-stone the principle of heavily endowed fellowships and competitive examinations, which latter are carried to an extreme. These institutions have, to be sure, the prestige of old age, and their supporters claim that they produce the most excellent results...
Before becoming instructor in a school, one is usually obliged to procure what is called a certificate of capacity. Two or three times a year a commission appointed by the academical council is convened in the principal town of a department, for the purpose of examining candidates and conferring this...