UNIVERSITY SENATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17691, 28 January 1921, Page 5

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

CONCLUSION OF SITTINGS. DEGREES CONFERRED. [BT TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. The University Senate concluded, its sittings to-day. The following degrees were conferred : —Bachelor of Arts, Edgar Charles Feltham (Victoria College); Bachelor of Laws, Alan M array Cousins (Victoria College), James Douglas Hutchison (Otago University and Victoria College ; Bachelor of Engineering, Ronald Joseph Beckley (Canterbury College); Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Colin James Campbell and Alfred Smith Gray (University of Otago). Professor Hunter moved that the questions on the distribution of the national endowment grant that had been circulated to the senate be considered. The mover said tho main matter was tho Workers' Educational Association, and out of the whole page of questions there was not one but referred to the association. He did not consider it desirable or judicial to confine all questions to one branch only of the objects on which the fund was expended. Professor MacMillan Brown said it was a spirit of benevolence and kindliness .to.ward the association that had prompted the questions. The senate did not vote on the matter, which was dropped accordingly. A motion was passed expressing the senate's appreciation of the conspicuous services rendered to the New Zealand University by Mr. H. von Haast, chairman of the committee, and Professor Hunter, a member of the committee.