On 15 February 1853 and the three following days all except two or three of the many recommendations of the Revising Syndicate were voted upon in the Senate. Only seven of them, of which none were of fundamental importance, were rejected, and not always because they were objected to in principle. The proposal, for instance, to substitute Licentiates in Theology for the Ten-Year men was lost, because many members of the Senate considered that the creation of an entirely new title, being purely experimental, should be effected by ordinance and not by statute; and much the same sort of argument was advanced against the recommendation to require residence during at least two-thirds of a term, which also was not approved. The recommendation that graduates of other Universities than Oxford and Dublin should be allowed to incorporate, though approved in principle, was also not accepted, because it was deemed advisable to enumerate the Universities to which this privilege should be extended; and the Senate certainly showed far more wisdom than the syndicate in refusing to allow a voter, who was suspected of having left the English Church, to be forced to declare that he still adhered to the subscription he had made when admitted to his last degree. Those who objected to this most inquisitorial mode of insuring the Anglican purity of the Senate approved its purpose, but rightly contended that a person should not be called upon to make a profession of faith at a time “when it would seem desirable that the call should not be made, namely a possible time of great public excitement”.