A Bachelor of Land.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 10 February 1910, Page 2

A Bachelor of Land.

j Aux has its scholastic degrees, Science I also- and now at long last the man jon the land is to receive the hallj mark of learning. At the request of | tire Board of Governors of Lincoln | College, the New Zealand University j Senate, a,t its recent sitting in" £unj edin, decided to establish a degree |of Bachelor of Agriculture. Of course, some practical fanners will ccoff at the idea of such a degree but why should they? There is no real reason why the farmers should not have the Ingest learning possible of achievement— and get a diploma showing he has made such an achievement. The matter was mentioned at yesterday's meeting of the Lincoln College Governors by that very well known enthusiast, Mr M. Murphy ex-President of. the Canterbury A ex-Secretary of the Canterbury A and P. Association. "It is only fair/ he "that the students of Lincohx should be able to receive some ; iall-mark of -their accomplishment. 1-iio degree is now within the reach ol anyone with brains who likes to S»un it, and I think there are students at the College now who will <»ke it. Some little while ago a man v as engaged from Scotland to lecture to teachers in South Canterbury on agriculture..and it seems a pity that ' •such a position could not have been filled by one of the students from the 1 College, who are well fitted for u,e '■ post, but have lacked the necessary - degree. The same thing has occurred m Wellington and in Hawke's Hay ■ x and I hope that this move by the' \ henato will improve matters and 1 makp Lincoln a real college." We I ■ye sure our far-seeing and up4o- ' l!UO farmers will welcome this ad- ) Son m ° TC 1U ° allSe ° f eduoa " a a