N.Z. UNIVERSITY SENATE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 50, 28 February 1901, Page 2

N.Z. UNIVERSITY SENATE

TO-DAY'S PROCEEDINGS

The Senate of the New Zealand University met again at Government. House to-day, the Chancellor (Sir Jas. Hector) presiding. A telegram was read from the Governor approving: of the appointment of Professor McLaren to the Senate. Mr McLaren thereupon took his seat. LAW EXAMINATIONS. The following further report of the Law Committee was presented and adopted: — "The committee beg to report as follows:-!. That they recommend that the judges be asked to alter the regulations under the Law Practitioners' Act so as to provide (a) That candidates for barristers' law examination be permitted to take the subjects prescribed for that examination in two sections—jurisprudence and constitutional history, Roman law, international law and conflict of laws constituting one section, and the remaining law subjects constituting the other section; and that candidates shall have the option of taking contracts and tcrts. real and personal property, and equity, or any one or more of those subjects in the first section in place of taking them in the second section; and that a candidate passing the first section shall be credited with such one or more of such last mentioned subjects as he shall have passed in. (b) That candidates for the solicitors' law examination bu permitted to take the subjects prescribed for that examination in two sections, contracts and torts, real and personal property and equity, or any two of such subjects constituting one section, and the subjects not passed iv that section constituting the other section; and that a candidate passing in any two or more of the above mentioned subjects shall be credited.with a pass in such subjects That .candidates who have already passed in one section shall not be affected by the foregoing alterations. The committee also recommended that the copy of the regulations aid above recommendations' be. sent to the Chief Justice. .'!. That the question of altering the LL.D. statute be referred to the Law Eecess Committee. 4. That the pass in Latin required for the solicitors' ireneral knowledge examination shall be an absolute pass, aud not a pass, conditional on excellence in other subjects. 5. That it. is not expedient to reduce the number of examinations for barristers and solicitors who have been admitted elsewhere. 0. That the following be appointed examiners in law for this year:—Contracts and tort I John Macgregor, M.A.: real and personal property. J. G. Find la y, LL.D.; equity, F. Fitehett, . M.A., LL.D.; criminal law, Hon. J- A. Tole, LL.B; evidence, W. A. Stout, LL.B.; practice and procedure, F. E."Baume, LL.B.; o-eneral law and New Zealand law. C. Prendergast Knight, LL.D. 7. That the committee have considered the ease, of the candidate '"Regent" and have no recommendation to make-" ENGIN EEEING. Prof. Cook presented Ihe report- of the committee on engineering^ in which some important alterations were recommended in connection with the enginefing standards, completely altering the whole of the present engineering course. The committee recommended that in the statute of the degree of Bachelor of Science in engineering there be inserted the words "electrical engineering" after the words "civil engineering." The committee also recommended: "That clause VII. of the same statute be repealed and there be enacted in lieu thereof:—The examinations for the degree of Bachelor of Science in enginering shall be as follows —I. Mathematics, stage (1) — (Three papers). As for the degree of Bachelor of Science, but the third paper (on applied mathematics) shall include, in addition to the subjects specified for the ordinary degree of Bachelor of Science, questions on the fdlfowting subjects, viz., elementary theory of impact, projectiles, circular motion and the pendulum. 2. Physical science as for the B.A. degree. ?,. Inorganic chemistry—as at present defined. 4. Freehand mechanical drawing—as at present defined. 5. Descriptive geometry—as at present, defined. 6. Applied mechanics and mechanics of machinery—as at present defined. 7. The steam engine (elementary) as defined at present. The first examination shall be passed not sooner than at the end of \ the candidate's second academic year, provided that the candidate shall be allowed to pass in any two or more of the following subjects of the examinations at the end of the first academic year, viz., mathematics, physical science, inorganic chemistry, freehand mechanical drawing and de-* Iscriptive geometry. Any student, who has passed in all the subjects of the first examination except one will be allowed to present himself in that single subject at a subsequent examination, held not sooner than six months after the examination in which he failed. And any student availing himself of. this regulation must,, before re-examination, produce a certificate from the recognised teacher of the subject in the engineering school that he has received further instruction in the subject. No student shall be allowed to present himself for any part of his second examination till he has completed his first examination. For the second examination the subjects are to include maWeinatics (stages 2 and 3), the strength of materials—as at present defined: the steam engine (advanced)—as at present defined; mechanical drawing and designing— as at present; the theory of° workshop practice; one of the following: naval architecture and engineering, locomotive and railway engineering, or engineering applied to arts and manufactures, all as at present defined. A candidate must do practical work in the engir. eP ri nff laboratory for at least one academic year after he passes the first examination before he is allowed to pass the secoud. The report also laid down the syllabus of practical work in civil and electrical engineering. The report concluded by saying:— "The committee have no recommendation to make on the subject of holding junior scholarships at an eno-j----neering school."

The Senate went into committee to discuss the report of the committee.