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the results of Extension teaching in England. He said that the average citizen, who has to pursue his education collaterally with the work of life, is ready and ripe for instruction in the higher branches of learning, and that the work done by them in the Extension classes and the examinations undergone by them would, in the case of some of the students, compare favorably even with the most advanced instruction in England, such for example as the Indian Civil Service open competitive examination.

He asserted that University Extension is beginning to change the ideals of education in England,- that Extension lecturers and the striking results of their work are gradually turning the great universities from the extreme scholastic specialism which has hitherto predominated to a more liberal and culture-giving system of education.

Perhaps the most marked result of Extension teaching in England, Mr. Collins says, is the effect which it has had upon the position and influence of women in educational circles. The solid scholarship displayed by women all over England in the Extension classes has caused the exclusive occupants of university privileges to stop and consider the equities of the situation, as they have never thought of doing before.