TEACHERS IN CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13751, 16 May 1908, Page 6

TEACHERS IN CONFERENCE.

RHODES SCHOLARSHIPS. [BY TKu/.r.Arij.— PRESS ASSOCIATION.] CiiJttISTCirUECH. Friday. The Secondary Schools' Conference was re-, slimed to-day. It whs resolved, " That ilia scale of marl-:.-, for tin junior University' scholarship examination should ho so revised tint it may be possible- for candidate* to take any subject--'Hot less than four nor more than live in number, with a fixed aggregate maximum of marks, provided that in any new schedule of marks Greek and science should }><■ placed upon an equal footing, and also that French ;<n<l German should 1.-,- placed upon an equal footing." It was hKo ievolved to suggest to lh« Sen/tie that holders of junior H-holarship! and of senior National :•<moian-bips ho silowed to take fin lir-i section of (he B.A. at the oik! ~; the lit-! year. A diMU.T.-iou took place on the rpf-i-tioo of the study of Kngtird', th*- following mo-. tion being carried, " 'flint the philological element in the junior University scholarship English papers should lie materially decreased, that the history of the language should bo required only in general outline, and that the-<:hie; aim of the papers rhouk) be- to test the candidate'* reading, appreciation, and understand big of English hter*ture, and his power of using the language. '

The question of Rhodes scholarships was discussed, and it was decided that in the opinion of the conference Rhodes scholars should be chosen from boys about to leave school, who have not yet entered upon a university course.