VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 691, 16 December 1909, Page 8

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

' MATRICULATION STANDARDS. . , ■', Themonthly,meeting—the last of the o£ tho Victoria College Council was v 'held. lost evening, vthe'ro being present':'.',The': v 6hairman -(Mr.' J.- .Graham, M.P.),-Vnnd,;Messrs. T. R. FlemihgV R.'M'CaUnm.'C. Watson, E:'D. Bell, H. H.Ostler, A. R. Meek, J.G.- W; Aitken, and the Rev; W-, A. Evans. . • ';.'; .\ "; A statement of; finances submitted'disclosed a. credit;balance on the general, account', of ■£143.193..' Id.',, after paying accounts amounting to i £823'115..10d.. ■ ■■;.■-. -:■'• :..,,,.,, : Tho .'applications of^G. -W. Cobmbo and J. Laird -to. be .allowed; to sit for ."terms" in 1910 without further fee, since they were unable to sit this s'ear;by reason,of illness, were granted, the latter; application being allowed i contingent; on a medical' certificate being sent 1 in. ' ; :.'.;..:'- : . : ..•.•.'■,-, . '. ■:'.■';■. ■~.-.■:.■■ . ] :.:■■ It"..was. agreed, .that' an' extension of ,H., • Parker's Qnoen's Scholarship (applied for, by the headmaster'.. of. Nelson College) be recommended. 1 to the Education -Department for favourable' consideration.' '-..";' • ..j The Library Committee was authorised to obtain,' if ;it••; thinks fit ■ and the finances' permit, certain volumes"' previonsly ordered'.frouv an. American firm, but concerning which-some further , consideration was deemed in view of lists,since received..' Professor Loby's suggestion that .£BSO of the amount of JEIOOO granted for physical laboraj tpry apparatus be cabled to the -High Commis- | sioner m. London'for -cash; payment, in order that a saving of - discount be effected, was [agreed to, the amount to bo cabled when required. . '■•'•'■;■'- ; , A statement of suggestions from" itho Professorial Board was adopted as follows-.—That the:: lecture ; rooms, in 'the. new wing 'bo used mainly .'by.tho classes 1 in English, Latin, and mathematics, and that thoy bo terraced in accordanco ■ with the Education Department's recommendation•,• (the matter of tho library and ;the v : sub-division of Room V, to bo held ovqr).; that tbo question of; the hours of lectures bo held.over for consideration until after too .sonato^' meets'on January 19, 1910;'; that the board bo ; ,J?kcd to ; draw up an enrolment torm. for each 'stadent' to sign;' and- that' the council .support Vho, suggestion of tho. Professorial: Board, that tho capping ceremony bo held- at tht beginning of tho second term,'so that the preparations for it by .'the' students will not interfere with the work of the'first torm. ;■; ■■:'■ -'-■'~■•; ■■•'•.; '■','' ' ■Professor Laby': was authorised to engago Mr ■Ji. Strawbndge, of Melbourne University, as laboratory assistant at Victoria College lollowing up the reading of a lengthy memorandum from Canterbury College on the subjeer of the ; matriculation . standard - (a 'telegraphed, precis, of .which has. already; been pub„<'ll'n TvTn 1 .P 5 ? °n tho motion °\ r Mr - V- m that a committee of fivo -Messrs T.R.. Fleming, A. R. Meek, H. H. Ostler, H. P. Von Hnast, and the Rev. W" A Evans-confer with the' Professoria l; Board on the,whole question of the presentlow standard of matriculation, and.submit recommendations as.-a.joint committeo direct to the senate for consideration,' since the next meeting of the council .wili not. be held until January 19 the day utmn which the session of the senate .commences. .■'■.■..- ,; - . . ■. - -