UNIVERSITY SENATE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4289, 23 February 1901, Page 5

UNIVERSITY SENATE

■ PEBBS ASSOCIATION. ' : ' AUCKLAND, February 22. The sitting of the New Zealand University Senate wasi resumed this morning. Sir Robert Stout moved “That the senior scholarship statute and the honours statute he so altered as to prevent students obtaining either > senior scholarships or honours unless on examination held within three years from matriculation in case of senior scholarships,'and within four years from matriculation m case of honours.” After discussion, , Bishop Gowie moved, -and it was agreed, “That further consideration of the subject be deferred-until next session.” - ■' ■'

Professor Salmond moved,- -“That hi Section IV. of, the" statute of senior scholarships the second sentence be repealed.” The' sentence which Professor Salmond objected to prescribes that when examiners are unable to discriminate between two candidates the scholarship shall be divided. The motion was rejected by eleven votes to seven. , The Senate sat in'committee most ct the afternoon, dealing with suggestions in the chancellor s report. following are among the recommendations, which were subsequently reported to the Senate and adopted: A candidate who failed in the combined subject, of pure and applied ma-thematics-for the .B.So. degree;,asked that it should be possible to obtain a separate certificate for the portion ol the subject passed,- m The Senate agreed that certificates may be given as suggested, and that for that purpose the examiner bo requested to mark each part separately, but m determimng the result as a whole to consider both parts together. . It was also that the papers in French for junior scholarship and ma riculation bo separate. , The Senate declined the request^ ot ninety-one candidates from the Voliugton district that roatricula , medical preliminary, barristers’ a, djoUcitors’ general knowledge, l^l 0 * scholarship and Mus. Bao. intermediate examinations be made K^'a^l^ tion A proposal to repeal the regulation that makes the taking of tbe cr BSc degree a necessary preliminary to the doctorate of medicine was referred to the Medical Committee. The question of holding over fees, of students who have entered for examinations, but have been prevented from sitting, was raised in the chancellors report’. It was agreed that any students so placed could have bis fees held to his credit for the next year s examination by giving notice for the ensuing examination. , , , , _The chancellor reported that he had some difficulty in dealing with applications for admission ad eundem- statum, owing to the diversity of modes ot distributing subjects of degrees adopted by the different universities. He asked for an explicit riding on the subject, but the Senate decided to leave such admissions entirely in the hands of the chancellor. The Law Committee was asked to report on memoranda from Wellington and Otago, embodying a proposal tor the reconstruction of the ruinations dealing with the University LL.il. and law professional examinations. Dr Fitchett was elected to be a member of the Finance Committee for the year during the absence of Dr Grace.