Excerpt from The McGill Gazette, Vol. 5: March 29th, 1879

We: understand that a petition, influentially signed, has been presented to the governing body, praying that honour classes similar to those in vogue in Arts, be established in the faculty of Law. The suggestion will certainly commend itself to all those who have had any experience of the very unsatisfactory method at present pursued, for anything more incom prehensible it would be difficult to imagine. Not that we would insinuate that the exam inations for honours are conducted in anything like a slipshod way; the contrary, indeed, is the case. The reports of the annual examina tions show that the average number of marks taken is considerably higher than in the other faculties, and the standard is certainly well maintained; but it cannot be denied that those who have gone in for honours have dur ing the past year laboured under disadvan tages as compared with the ordinary men. For instance, twelve questions were set down on a paper, eight only for ordinary; the time for ordinary was one hour and a half, and for honours only two hours. This was, however, only one instance. Then hardly two profes sors adopted the same method of examining their papers. But it is needless to expatiate more fully. The existence of the anomalies of which the petition referred to complains must be admitted, and we trust that the docu ment will be carefully considered by the facul ty. Not the least commendable feature of it is that it shows a desire on the part of the students to raise the standard of the faculty and consequently the value of the degree.

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