STUDY OF RUSSIAN
Inclusion In B.A. Degree
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, January 18 The Senate of the University of New Zealand, which met in Christchurch today decided that Russian should in future be one of the foreign languages for students for B.A. Degree. Two papers will now include unprepared passages for translation from and into Russian and no student shall he deemed to have satisfied the requirements in Russian unless he translates to the satisfaction of the examiner at least one of the sight passages from Russian into English and at least one passage from English into Russian. When introducing a Bill to amend the Bachelor of Arts Degree, the Pro-Chan-cellor (Dr. James Hight) said that one of the university colleges had already appointed a lecturer in Russian and he emphasized the importance of the study of that language. Mr. A. E. Flower: Has anything been done in regard to Japanese? “No attempt has yet been made to inIrodkice Japanese,” replied Dr. Hight, Wh™rid that all Oriental languages were important, though they were not under consideration at the moment.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 96, 19 January 1944, Page 6
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