UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 27, 1 February 1907, Page 2

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

YESTERDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. [BY TELEGRAPH. — MIESS ASSOCIATION.] CHRISTCHURCH, 31st January. At tho University Sonate to-day the Ad Eundem Committee presented its report, which was passed with slight amendments as follows : — 1. That the statute foT admission ad eundem 11. bft amended so as to read," "Any person who shall have been admitted to any degre© in any British, chartered university recognised by the senate for the purposes of this statute may be admitted by the senate to the same degree in the University of New Zealand, provided that such degree is one of those granted by tho University of New Zealand. ■ 2. (a) That the statute university terms (p. 41) be amended by the insertion after "Bachelor of Medicine" of tho words "Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Bachelor of Veterinary Science, Bachelor of Agriculture," and by omission in tho following sentence of the words "in medicine or engineering." (h) That candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Commerce be required to keep terms for two years at some affiliated college. ' 3. That the statute of certificates of proficiency I. be amended to as to read, "At any degree examination in arts, science, law, or commorce any person, whether an undergraduate of tho University or not, may be admitted to examination," and. that after "examiners" be added "any candidate for such degree examination may receive a certificate for any subject or subjects in which he has passed, provided he complies with the subjoined conditions. > 5 (a) That the following be invited in the order here given to act as examiner in botany: — Professor ¥. W. Oliver, M.A., D.Ss., F.R.S., University College, London; A. G. Tansloy, M.A., assistant M.A., D.Sc, P.R.S., University College, London; A. C Seward, M.A., F.R.S., Lecturer in Botany, University of Cambridge, (b) That the following he invited in tho order here given to act as examiner in geography for the B. Com. degree: — A. J. Herbertson, Ph. D., reader in geography at the University of Oxford ; H. J. Mackinder, M.A., Director of the London School of Economics; G. G. Chisholm, M.A., B.Sc., examiner in economic geography, University of London, (c). That. Prof essoT Tout, tbe present examiner in history, bs asked to examine for that subject in the B. Com. degree. 6. That the statute university terms 111., page 43, be amended by the addition of the sentence "all such exemptions from attendance at lectures must ho applied for through -the Professorial Board of the college to which, the applicant is attached." 7. (a) That the degree of Master of Arts ad eundem be conferred on the Rev. T. Russell, M.A., Cambridge, (b) That the request for admission to matriculation without further examination be referred back to the office with instructions to apply to the. Education Department for moie definite information. 8. That the request of Mr. J. W. Joynt to bo allowed to hand in a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Literature be granted. A long discussion took place on the fourth recommendation, which proposed to repeal the condition that any person sitting for examination in the B.A. degree should also take mental science. On a division the clause was adopted by 15 votes to 5. In moving tho adoption of clause 8 Professor J. R. Brown said the application was tho first, request on the part of a first-class Honours graduate of another university to be allowed to take advantage of what the senate had recent,ly granted. Ho thought it wtm a hapi-y

omen ,for this concession that the first applicant should be a gentleman of such academical standing and literary qualifications as Mr. Joynt. Mt. Baume pointed out that the statute would havo to be amended to carry out the. recommendation. In any case he thought that they should hesitate before altering the statute, or, if granting the application, should limit its operation to work done while the applicant had been a member of the New Zealand University. Eventually the matter was referred back to the Ad' Eundem Committee to draw up a modification of th© statute to give effect to the recommendation.