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right side, there can be only one way to it, and that way lies through
reunion.
Now, in England at the present moment there is a good deal of
division of opinion as to what form reunion should take in its initial
stage. There are people who think that what we have got to aim at
first and foremost as preliminary to reunion is the acceptance of com-
petent church order. The people who think that are quite sure they
are right. Other people think that what we should aim at is an
exchange of pulpits, and that what we want to get at is to know one
another, and when we get to know one another through an exchange of
pulpits, we shall have done something to remove the old suspicions and
old misunderstandings, and then the way will be clear for the full reunion,
the reunion in organization. Between those two I do not feel in a position
to announce, but I merely am anxious for you to know that that is
the question that really divides the people. Almost everybody is agreed
that reunion between the great Protestant denominations and the Church
of England is essential. The only question is, What is the first step
towards it that should be taken?
Dr. Walker (after Sir Henry Jones’s address on A League of Learn-
ing) : I want to explain to you what has been done in the universities
of Great Britain to render it easier for students from America to enter
those universities and to follow those courses. In the first place, some-
thing like five and twenty years ago the entrance of students from other
countries, particularly from America and from our colonies, who wished
to take up the ordinary courses, what we call in Oxford the schools,
the courses taken by undergraduates, was made 'simple. Provided they
satisfied certain very simple conditions at their own universities, they
were excused the entrance examinations, the preliminary examinations
of our universities, and they were also excused one year in residence.
Every Rhodes scholar who has come to Oxford and has read for the
honor schools of the university, has availed himself of these privileges.
He has been excused all the preliminary examinations and he has been
excused one year of residence. That was done something like five and
twenty years ago.
But now quite lately we have at Oxford taken a further step. I
say we have at Oxford, not because I wish for one moment to sug-
gest that we have stolen a march upon the other universities of our
country, but I merely say Oxford because I come from Oxford, and I
can speak at first hand for all the details of the scheme, and I cannot do
so with regard to other universities ; but what is true of Oxford is true
also of some other of our universities, and no doubt before long will be