UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 29 January 1912, Page 8

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

BY TELEGEAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION

WELLINGTON, Jan. 28. At yesterday's sitting of the University Senate, Dr. Hughes moved, "That a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Literature, or Doctor of Science or Doctor of Laws, be required to publish his thesis or dissertation before it is accepted by the university, that the published thesis or dissertation be first submitted to the teachers of the subject concerned in affiliated colleges, and, except upon the receipt of an unfavorable report from the Senate, shall submit the work to an examiner who is a specialist in the subject of the thesis."

The motion, which was seconded and supported by Mr G. Hogben, was carried 'without dissent, and referred to the Statutes Committee.

The joint medical, and finance committees asked by the Senate to reconsider the rates of remuneration for examination, reported that nog change is at present advisable.—The report was adopted.. ;

Further consideration of the, report of the recess committee on engineering and architecture was given by the Senate.

Professor J. R. Scott (Canterbury College), in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his belief that this revised programme would prevent the establishment of infedor schools of engineering in other parts of the Dominion. This must inevitably result in the lowering of the standard and influence, not for the good of the Canterbury school. There was room for only one such institution in New Zealand.—The motion was seconded by Mr G. Hogben.

The several clauses of the rer>ort were taken seriatam and adopted. The report was referred to the Statutes Committee.

A travelling- scholarship was awarded to Thaddeus Julian.