UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13646, 1 February 1910, Page 8

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

(press association telegram.)

DUNEDIN, January 31. The University Senate this morning dealt with the report of the Statutes Committee embodying changes in the regulations governing a candidate's choice of subjects for the matriculation examination. The main alterations are that a candidate may not take more than six subjects, in lieu of nine, as heretofore. Elementary mathematics 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 five. English and mathematics are the two subjects eonipuisory for every candidate. In English the first paper will deal with grammar, and in the second will require that an essay be written, and elementary questions in political geography and English history be answered. History and geography, however, are still retained as serrate subjects apart from English. One effect of the new regulations is that it is compulsory for a candidate, who does not take Latin or Greek, to take a science subject. Any student intending to take an arte course mtist take Latin or Greek fvr matriculation. The effect of this regulation should be to make more pupils at secondary schocls take Latin as one of the subjects.

The Senate concluded its sittings, and will meet at Christcburch on January 19th, 1911.