UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 27, 1 February 1910, Page 7

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION. (By Telccraph. Press Association.) DUNEDIN", .Monday. The University Senate this morning dealt with the report of the Statutes Committee embodying the changes in the regulations governing the candidates' choice of subjects for the matriculation examination. The main alterations are that candidates may not take more than six subjects ill lieu of nine as heretofore. Elementary matlhenmtios now* appears as one subject, whereas arithmetic, algebra, and geometry were formerly separate subjects. The maximum number of subjects a candidate may now take (six) would amount to eight under the old classification. The number of subjects required for a pass has been reduced from six (seven unless the subjects passed in included Latin or Greek) to live. English and mathematics are two compulsory subjects. In English the lirst paper will deal with grammar and the second will require au essay to be written and elementary fruest'ions in political geography and English history to be answered. History and geography, however, are still retained as separate subjects apart from English. One effect of the new regulations is that' it is compulsory ou a candidate who does not take Latin or Greek to take science. Any students intending to take the arts course must' take Latin or Greek for matriculation. The effect of this regulation should be to make more pupils at secondary schools lake Latin.

The Senate concluded its sittings, to meet at Christ'church in January, 1911.