UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 23, 28 January 1922, Page 11

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

ATCKtAND SESSION. GENERAL BUSINESS. The Senate of the University of New Zealand resumed sitting yesterday afternoon and to-day. The oommittee appointed by Senate to inquire into the use made by colleges of funds granted to them by the University out of national endowment grant recommended that local authorities should j not appoint any tutor unless he has j received a certificate of fitness from the [ University. This was defeated. That money grants be distributed ac at present and that copies of various reports received be forwarded to the Education j Department, were claueee carried. I The Medical, Dental and Home Science I Committee recommended: "That the requirements for the medical preliminary examination 'be set forth separately from the requirements for matriculation. That the subjects for the medical preliminary examination be English, Latin, j mathematics, one modern and foreign ; language, chemistry, phyeics, and one I other subject. That thia examination I may he taken in two sections. The j committee did not recommend the adop- ! tion of the suggestion that history and J geography be compulsory in this examination." The matter was deferred until April. The Arts and Commerce Committee recommended adoption of the request of the Bank Officers' Guild to exempt candidates from examination in the subject of bookkeeping on the ground of having passed an equivalent examination ; that the New Zealand Society of Accountants 'be informed that the University will continue its practice of allowing a paes in three subjects in the accountants' preliminary examination; that the suggestion of the society to summon a conference to consider the commerce courses of the University be referred to the Wellington Recess Committee to report to the April meeting of the Senate on the possibility of arranging such a conference; that the Senate do not establish a diploma in commerce; that the subject anthropology be placed at the end of the list of su-bjects of the pass grade in the B.A. statute, and that the restriction at present applicable to subjects 15-19 apply to it. Adopted. LAW, FINANCE AND MUSIC. On the recommendation of the Finance, Law and Music Committee the following examiners were appointed: — Law: L/L.M., Contracts aud Torts, H. D. Haseltine; Downing Professor, Cambridge ; Negligence, Mistake, etc., W. S. Holdsworth, D.C.L., All Soirie* Oxford; Law of Companies, A. V. Topham, London; Law of Bankruptcy, W. A. Bewee, London; Law of Real Property, C. <J. White, LLJJ. LLJS.: Jurisprudence and Constitutional History, W. F. Muriaon. LL.B. and Un f Professional: Contracts, J. Macgregor, Dunedin; Property 1., J. (.'. Stephens, Dunedin; Property 11., W. A, Izard, Christchurc-h; Torts, F. J, Rolleston. Timaru: Criminal Law, O. T. J. Alpers, Christchurch; Evidence, W. J Macalister, Invercargill; Procedure, W, jA. Stout, Invercargill; New Zealand j law for barristers and -solicitors I admitted elsewhere, E. F. Hadfield. Comi merce: Industrial Law, W. D. Campbell; Mercantile Law 1.. T. A. Murphy: Mercantile Law 11.. T. W. Rowe; Rights and Duties of Trustees. C. R. Fell; Law of Bankruptcy. J. Lang, M.A.. LL.B.; Law of Joint Stock Companies, H. L. Cook. LLJJ.. Grant Hay. LL.M. EXTRANCK EXAMINATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS. The Entrance Examinations Committee, in regard tv raising the standard of matriculation, pointed out that the Senate had already made the standard of matriculation that of a four years' course at a secondary school, and, fur--1 ther, that an additional compulsory I subject had been added at this meeting , !of the Senate. It recommended that examiners be instructed that no candidate should receive 40 per cent, of maximum marks unless in the opinion of the examiner he has reached a standard representing the results of a four years' I course at a secondary school. The recommendation was defeated. Reporting on the practice of allowing a candidate for the entrance scholarship who obtains 20 per cent, of the maximum manks in any subject to count that subject toward matriculation the committee recommended that the regulation ' remain as at present, 'but that definite ' instructions be given to examiners to regard 20 per cent, of the maximum marka as the minimum for a pass. This j was adopted. On the subject of partial pa=s for I matriculation on entrance scholarship t papers, the committee recommended that a candidate for entrance scholarship who would have been entitled to a pass in matriculation 'but for failing to : meet the requirements in one subject I may be credited with a partial pass in i matriculation. Dealing with the question of two or three papers in the entrance examination the committee recommended that in history, in geography, and in physical, natural and home science there be two-hour papers. It also recommends that in drawing up ; the time-table, the office should take i cere, as far as possible, that no candi- '■ date should require to sit more than i two papers on the same day. It recom- ' mended that the principle of compenen- ; tion for matriculation be also applied to the preliminary science examination J for the certificnte of proficiency in den- ; tistry, and to the engineering preliminary examination. All these recommendations were adopted. CALENDAR AMENDMENTS. Amendments to the calendar recommended by the Calendar Committee and reviewed "by the Arts and Commerce Committee were made. "That a candidate who takes a course consisting of ■ six pass subjects, if left with a single : sirbject shall take it with either a seventh subject or any one of three subjects previously passed in one section" was recommended and rejected. An . amendment was carried enabling candij dates left with one subject out of six !to take that subject alone in a separate i section of the examination. ! Professor Hunter moved and it wa? carried that the statute "Certificate oi Anthropology be repealed and that in connection with the Royal Military Entrance examination only the regulations and prescriptions shall appear in the calendar." '. I.IKK SEA FOAM. I A Household Soap. e*pe<-i.-il!v if used for 'washing clothes, should lather freely. I! 'yon wnnt a fre« latherer, of dazzling n-Mte-l-nene (like sea-foami try a t>ar of Tatilwba. I tineqnalled for wa«hlnjr clothes, and Juet a> i good for scrubbing floors! All Grocer*.-Aα.