UNIVERSITY SENATE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 23, 28 January 1915, Page 3

UNIVERSITY SENATE

STUDENTS AT THE FRONT. MEDICAL AND DENTAL EXAMINATIONS. (BY TELEGRAPH— PRE« 3 ASSOCIATIONS CHRISTCHURCH, 27th Jan. The New Zealand University Senate has decided to honour its students who have gone to the front. It is having a complete list prepared on which all names will appear, and this list will be inserted in the University Calendar. At the close of to-day's session Dr. Collins spoke with regard to the clause in tho Medical Committee's interim report which recommended that the names of those who have passed the medical and dental examinations of the past year as certified by the Examinations Committee^ in Wellington should be •embodied in the minutes of the Senate. These lists include tho names of students who were granted the special professional examination In August, and who are no'vy on active service at the seat of war. Dr. Collins said that he wished to draw attention to the latter part of the clause, in order to do honour to those students who have gone to the front. By the fact of their having been granted special professional examinations their names would appear in the minutes of the Senate. The number of students who passed this special examination was sixteen, but while wishing to do honour to them he would also like to do honour to those members — teachers, graduates, and undergraduates of the University— who had gone to the front. Ho would like to see a list compiled by the four different colleges of the names of thoee who had gone to the front inserted in the Calendar of the New Zealand University. While on this topic of doing honour to these men he wished to draw attention to the fact that Dr. F. G. Batchelor, of Dunedin, had also gone to the ftoht. Dr. Batchelor had been for over forty years a very prominent and influential citizen of Dunedin. After stating the numerous positions Dr. Batchelor has held, Dr. Collins said : " L feel that they ought to do him Konour. After strenuous years of active life he had been one of the first to volunteer for the front when the call from King and Empire came. One could not help feeling gratified that those medical students who had gone to the front would know that their old teacher was there, to whom at any time they would be able to go for advice and help." Dr. Collins then moved: "That the names of all members, teachers, and undergraduates of the University who have gone to the war should be recorded in the University Calendar." The motion was seconded by the Rev. A. Cameron, and carried, unanimously. On tho motion of Professor Chilton, the Chancellor was authorised to make arrangements for the first meeting in 1915 of the BoaTd of Studies after consultation with the chairman of the Professorial Board. The examiners of the Macmillan-Brown prize recommended that as the four compositions sent in were unworthy of the pnze, it should not' be awarded this year, and that tho subject for 1916 be " We Must be Free, or Die, to Speak the Tongue that Shakespeare Spake." The recommendations were adopted. Speaking on the Macmillan-Brown prize, Professor Hight said that tho prize did not seem to be woH enough known. On the motion of Mr. G. Hogben, seconded by Professor Hight, it was decided to send printed notices of the University prizes to the University colleges. The Finance Committee recommended that University scholars on military service should be alTbwed to retain their scholarships, and be paid as they fulfil the conditions of their scholarships.