UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10601, 9 March 1895, Page 3

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

The Senate resumed yesterday morning at 9.30 a.m.; present—The Chancellor (in the chair), the Vice-Chancellor. Hon C.O. Bowen, Professors Cook, Scott, F. D. Brown, J. M. Brown, Shand, Sale, Rev J. Paterson, Rev Dr Salmond, Rev W! J. Habeas, Most Kav Dr Cowie, Messrs Hay and Giles.

The committee on the application for a commission in the army, recommended that Professor Scott, of Canterbury College, should be appointed to examine the candidates for a commission at the end of April or the beginning of May in the subject of geometrical drawing. Tho recommendation was agreed to. The committee on the Exhibition 1851 Scholarship recommended that the Senate should authorise the Chancellor to make the nomination on its behalf of a New Zealand scholar on receipt of the report of tho examiners in England. The recommendation was agreed to. The committee on medical questions recommended that tne special April examination in medicine should be retained, but that tbo scale of-fees for the medical examinations should be aa follows For the November intermediate (as a whole) £3 3s, or for each section £1 Is; for the first professional (November), £5 6s; for the second professional (November), £5 ss; for the third professional (November), £5 1 ss; for the special April intermediata for ! each subject, £2 2s; for the first profeeI sional (April), £8 8s; for tho second professional (Auril), £8 83. It was resolved—“ That the recommendations of the committee be agreed to, and referred to the Statutes Committee.” It was resolved—" That the session of the Senate in 1896 begin on the last Wednesday of February, at Wellington.” The committee on framing of statutes presented its report, the consideration of which was held over. The report of the committee on authors and periods recommended ;—“ (1) That the books and periods selected for the examination in English for Honours in Arts for tho year 1897 be the same as those prescribed fer 1892. (2) With regard to the division of the papers in English for the B-A. examination, the committee do not recommend any change. They do not think that the re-arrangement of the subject suggested by the agent would produce any beneficial result. (3) It has been suggested by Professors Easlam and Tubbs that the Are Poetica o' Horace bo omitted from the selections in Latin prescribed for the B.A. examination for 1895. The committee think that it is too lata to make the suggested alteration for tha present year, but they agree that it should be made in future years. (4) That the selections for the B.A. and honours examinations for 1899 be the same aa for 1894 in Latin, Greek, English, French, German and history, excepting that in the selections for examination for honours in French, Voltaire’s Charles XII. should be omitted, and that the period should be 1701-1789. (5) That the special Latin work prescribed for the medical preliminary examination for 1899 be Cicero de Officiis, book 3. (6) That the period of literature for the B.A. examination in French for • 1898 be tha sixteenth century, and that the period of literature in German for the same year ba the eighteenth century.” The recommendations of tho committee were agreed to. Tho committee on the appointment of examiners in England, and on applications for degrees in Mining Engineering recommended the appointment of the following examiners, in order of preferenceln, Mathematics—Professor Hoiaea Lamb, M.A., F.R.S., Owen’s College, Manchester; Mr Joseph Larmor, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., St John’s College, Cambridge; Professor W. M. Hicks, D.Sc., F. 8.5., Firth College, Sheffield; Professor W.H.E.Hudson.M.A., King’s College, London j Professor M. J. M. Hill, D.Sc., University College, London. In chemistry—Mr A. C. Vernon Harcourt, F.R.S., Christ’s Church, Oxford; Professor Harold Dixon, M.A., F.E.S., Owen’s College, Manchester; Professor William Ramsay, Ph.D., F.E.S., University Collage, London; Professor Herbert M’Leod, F.R.S., Cooper’s Hill College; Professor H; E. Armstrong, Ph.D., L.L.D., F.R.S., City and Guilds Central Institution, South Kensington, The committee further reported that with regard to the two candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering, the documents submitted to the committee do not show that the candidates have passed the requisite examinations. The recommendations of the committee were agreed to. Tho further report of the committee on Medical questions recommended—" That the University of Edinburgh be asked to exempt graduates in Arts or Science of the New Zealand University from examinations in Botany, Zoology, Physics and Chemistry required from candidates for degrees in Medicine, provided that they have passed in these subjects as part of their Arts or Science course. That a similar request be made to the University of Glasgow; and that that University bo also thanked for its proposed action with a view to altering the Ordinances of the Scottish Universities, so as to allow of the recognition of tha intermediate medical examination of this University, a concession which we regard as of the utmost value.”, The recommendations of the committee were agreed to. On resuming after the luncheon adjournment the Senate went into committee to consider the ad interim report on various matters. On resuming, tha. Vice - chancellor brought up the report of the whole, which recommended :—>(!) That tha nest meeting of the Court of Convocation be held at Christchurch on Friday, Jan. 10, 1896. (2) That the University should grant certificates in any single subject of the 8.A., B.Sc. and M.A. examinations; and that a candidate for such certificate need not pass the matriculation examination or keep terms in any College. Any candidate for such certificate must give due notice of hia intention to present himself for examination. Every condition that applies to examination on any particular subject shall be aa binding on the candidate for a certificate as on tha student who is passing a full University course; and no one shall obtain the higher certificate in any subject by sitting at an M.A. examination, until he has obtained the lower certificate in the subject at the B.A. or B.Sc. examination, (3) That the lists be sent to each examiner, one of candidates for degrees and one of candidates for certificates, and that the examiner be instructed to observe the same standard in deciding on the papers of the latter aa he has adopted for the former. (4) From tho information before the Senate it appears that the annual college examinations are conducted as the Senate has always desired, without special regard to tha class work of the year, eo that candidates who have not attended lectures are not at a disadvantage if they have such a knowledge of the subject as they might bo expected to have after pursuing a proper course of study. (5) That tho statute “ The Degree of B.Sc.” bo amended so as to make it clear that college examinations are not required for tho engineering or other professional course. (6) That the fee for examination for certificates be one guinea for each subject, and for the certificate five shillings for each subject. On the motion of the Hon C. 0. Bowen, it was resolved—“ That the recommend--1 ations of the Committee of the Whole be agreed to.” On tha motion of Professor Scott, it was resolved— “ That it bo referred to the Statutes Committee to bring the Statute of Degrees in Music in conformity with those in medipino as regards practical work in physics.” The Senate adjourned at 4.30 till 10 a.m. cn Saturday.