NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 5 March 1897, Page 3

NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY SENATE.

LAST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS,

The annual session of the New Zealand University Senate was concluded to-day. The Senate meb at; 10 a.m. ab Government House, tbe Chancellor, Sir James ileotor, presiding. The business was confined to 'ho third reading of various bilU for new statutes of the University. .Affiliated Institution*.-*. — A Bill to amend the otatuio of aiihiated institutions was agreed to. —By the amendment resolved on a recognised professional school is required to make an, aunual reporD to tho Seuato of the same kind as that which an atlilinted institution is required to make, and may cease to be recocnised if its governing body make appJication fco that effocb to the Chancellor, or by resolution of the Ssnjvto if tbe auuual report be not made, or if the provision made by the school for the instruction of its students cease to be euffieienb for the purposes for which the recognition was accorded.

Macmillan - Bkown Memorial. — The Senate also passed v bill for a statute of " The MacniiUan-Brown memorial priza." —The conditions of this pnza have already been published.—Tbe subject for 189S is " Antarctica," and competitions musb be Aonc in by tho end of December.—The decision of the examiners shall be made Im own and the prize awarded by tha Senate ab its annual session in March, IB9i\

b&'WBN Peize. —A Bill to amend the statute of the Bowen prize was discussed and agreed to. Thia prize arises from a donatiun by Sir G. F. Bowen, late Governor of hew Zealand, of bhe sum of £100. The prize is to be given every alternate year, and the prize to be competed for in 189S shall be o I the value ot £5. The essays musb be ei>nb in by tho 14th of February, IS9B. Tho subject this year ia " The Imperial Policj' ot Great Britain Towards Her Cuioniee." V'he tireb award of the bieuaial prize to be mi'do in 1900. Junior jscu.oLAßsmrs.—The statute of junior scholarship* was amended by substituting for sect ion 2 the following section : —" Tbe annual1 value of each junior scholarship shall .be £30, provided that £20 shall be added to the value of the scholarship iv the case oX overy junior scholar who ia obliged to live .tway from home in order to uttoud a univer *icy college." The same statute was further amended by tho addition of the following words to Beetiou s:—"The authority by which the result of the junioi1 scholarship examination ia ascertained in each year shall determine how many of the candidates in the credit list are eligible bo bo added to the list of junior scholars', in the event of any vacancy occurring therein before bhe last Wednesday in February1 in such year." Bachelor of Arts.— The Btatute for the B.A. degree was amende d by the addition of provisions for Hebrew language and literature being taken as a subject. The general history page w 't»s duh'noc! • as: " General questions on the history of England from 449 A.r>. to 850 A.D., and moro detailed examination in th 9 hisbory of a selected period." Honours in Arts. — Tlut Btatute of Honours in Arts was amende i by adding Hebrew to bhe list of subjects. Definitions of the Latin and Greek paper« wore also substituted for the existing tinea in tho statute.

Engineering,—Sundry altera toons were made in the statute of B.Sc. in engineering, two papers being laid dowii in freehand mechanical drawing, and two papers in mechanical drawing; and de signing. The following addition was made •to th« statute :—"Each candidate will be jwoweii a iortnighb for bnis drawing and desi.^njng, which must bo done in the class room of htf college and musb be handed to the tinpi>r' visor not. later than bhe last day of tiu examination, together with the candid\ate\ statutory dectoration that She work iaf enbiroly his own, aud hia teacher's ceittificate to the same effect."

Music—The statute of the Degree* of Bachelor of iVJueic was amended by adding the words "or German, as defined for the junior scholarship examination" to subjection 1, physics. Sub-section 7 vnie amended to read as follows:—" For the final examination in Music four papers ehtill be »c& as follows :—(a) Counterpoint. (6) Harmony, (c) 1. Canon, in two parts. 2. Fugue in two parts, especially as to the relation of subject) and answer. 3. Form in composition, na exemplified ir> the sonata. 4. The pitch and quality of f'e stops of the organ, (d) 1. Suchkr.owiedfjo of the quality, pitch, and compass of orchestral instruments as in necessary for reading from ecoro. 2. The analysis of gome classical composition with regard to harmony and form; the name of the work to ba aunouncad in the calendar."—The Bills as above given were then pas-ed. B,A, —On the motion of Sir Koborb Stout) Joseph Moody Simpson was awarded the degree of B.A. ad eundem. Thanks. —On the motion of Sir Robert Stout a vote of thanks was passed to the Minister of Public Works for his courtesy in permitting the Senate to use the Government house buildings for the session.

On the motion of the Chancellor the Senate then adjourned until next year.