VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5669, 17 August 1905, Page 7

VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.

Tii.- Victoria t tillage Council met last R. 1 .vmu ieli.urm in). ’ Dim Knight and Chappie, Hun ( ului.d Pitt, Messrs J. Graham and A. \V. Hogg, M.11.1t. s. C. Vi'atMJii, W, A, Evan.-. R. ,U<-( ailuin, T. H. Fleming, H. D. He'd, 11. P. Richmond, and C. Wilson. Leave of ah-eiioe was granted to Mr G. Talbot. Referring to the accounts for the j year, the chairman sail there were now Lal students attending lectures, an in-eroa-o of 59 over the pievious year. The fees were estimated at £9-17, or £_o'_> more than last year. The exempted students numbered 70, or three less than last year. A letter was received from the Premier stat.ng that tfie application of the Council for a further grant would receive further consideration at the hands of tho Government. JACOB JOSEPH SCHOLARSHIP. Tho Professorial Hoard wrote stating that it was unanimously of opinion that it was a mistake to exclude mathematics as a science, seeing that (a) it was compulsory for a science degree, and (b) all tho greatest living physicists wore, in the first instance, mathematicians. As for restricting tho candidates to persons who hud kept all tiicir terms at Victoria College, they considered it would bo sufficient to confine it to students who had taken both sections of their degree. Air Fleming moved, “That the Council accede to'the request of the Professorial Heard that mathematics be placed among the science subjects.” Ho pointed out that mathematics as a science subject contained a good deal more than as an arts subject, and it was now treated more as a science. He thought they would be justified by tho fact that the' Professorial Board was unanimous. Mr McCullura seconded tho motion. Sir Robert Stout said there was a possibility of giving the scholarship to someone who was not on tho science side at all, and who might never take a science course. Mr Richmond said the applied branches of mathematics almost led the student perforce into a. science. He did not think the regulations as framed were worth very much at all for research work.

Tho motion was lost by 6 votes to 4. As for restricting tho scholarship to Victoria College, Mr McCallum moved, ‘•'That the Council adhere to its former decision.” Mr Watson could not see what harm would bo done by making tho scholarship as open as possible. Mr Richmond also opposed the motloMr Bell and Mr Wilson supported it. The motion was carried with two dissentients. MEMORIAL TABLETS.

The matter of erecting tablets to tho memory of students of the college was held over for a month, the Council oxnrossing the opinion that as the students were not distinguished in college history they could not do more at tho outside than allow tablets to be erected in tho students’ room. Mr Richmond is to confer with the Students’ Association on the subject'.

QUEEN’S SCHOLARSHIPS. Dr Knight moved the adoption of tho following report of the committee on Oucen’s scholarships;— Your committee has had a conference with the Professorial Board on the question ot the Queen’s sdiolanships, and recommends; That the -examination for tho senior Queen’s scholarships shall be tne junior University scholarships examination and that the scholarships be | awarded to the four highest on tho list • that the first senior scholarship bo offered at the December examinations in 1906, and that the Minister of Education be asked to approve of this examination; that each scholar on commencing studios in Wellington shall see the chairman of the Professorial Board to receive advice as to course of study; that failure to pass the terms examination, or any University examination, shall entail forfeiture of a scholarship unless good cause be shown. The first clause was amended to retrict the senior scholarships to the four highest on the credit list, provided they matriculate. The report was then adopted.