UNIVERSITY SENATE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1618, 4 March 1903, Page 23

UNIVERSITY SENATE

CHRISTCHURCH, February 26.

At the University Senate to-day it Avaf decided to devote the sum of <£4o to the" expenses of preparing registers of district courts of convocation.

The Committee on Engineering recommended a course for the degree Bachelor of Science in mining and metallurgical engineering. The Senate adopted the report, and decided to request Professor Park and Mr Waters to prepare a syllabus for next year, xvhich should occupy not more than half the space of the present one.

The examiners reported that the Macmillan Brown prize had been won by Seaforth- Simpson McKenzie, of tbe Public Trust Office, Wellington^ The Committee on. Authors and Periods reported that candidates for examination in French be allox\ r ed to take advantage of tbe concessions made in French grammar by the French Minister of Public Instruction. With regard to the quest tion of oral examinations in French and German, the cbmmittee regretted the difficulties in the way in most examinations, but recommended that tbe experiment to be tried in the honours and senior scholarship examinations to be held in 1904; also that oral examination should consist of:—(1) Reading a selected unseen passage from a French or German author; (2) xvriting from dictation; (3) conversation in French or German on portion of prescribed books indicated beforehand by the oral examiners. With regard to the question of bringing prescribed books into conformity with, literary periods, the committee agreed with the suggestion, but considered it unnecessary to make changes at present. The committee recommended that the prescriptions for 1907 be. tbe same as for 1902, except for B.A. examination in Latin (Cicero’s Pro Milone and Horace’s odes, books 3 and 4 being prescribed), and in Greek (Demosthenes’ Glynthiacflf and Philippics 1., Sophocles’ Ajax Elea* tra and Philoctetes). The report wa& adopted. The Senate decided to define the subject of zoology for matriculation as “General structure and physiology of higher vertebrata,” candidates being expected to show elementary, practical aquaintance of tbe skeleton of some mammal xvith such other parts of the subject as could be illustrated by simple appliances. The definition of algebra was extended to include simple, rational integral algebraic functions and graphical methods of solxdng equations. Euclid books 1 and 2 xvas replaced by “Geo, metry, the subject matter of Euclid 1, 3 and 3 (Euclid’s proofs will not be required but his logical order will be insisted* upon).” The changes come into operation in 1904.

The Senate passed a resolution allowing junior scholars to use their scholarships while pursuing the Medicine, Law or Engineering course, as well as Arts OF Science as previously provided.