UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10672, 23 January 1911, Page 2

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

(Per Press Association.) Christchurch, January 21. The Senate.this morning referred to the .Scholarships Committee a letter from the Habens Memorial Connriittee, ■offering" £lO5 for a. prize of £lO to be offered every two years for an essay, open to students of training colleges who were matriculated students, of not more than three years' standing. A motion by Professor F. D. Brown, that the regulations regarding mechanics, physics, and chemistry for matriculation and junior scholarships be revised, was carried, and the matter referred to a special committee. The Recess Marking Committee recommended that the mark for a pass should not be lowered in any subject below a defined minimum, but that compensation might be afforded for comparative weakness in single subjects ; that in matriculation the statute maximum in Maori language, history, geography, music, and drawing be 100, other subjects 200; that every candidate be required to pass in English, elementary mathematics, Latin or Greek, or French or German, and except for a candidate who • passes in Latin or Greek, one of sciences be compulsory; that an aggregate of 400 marks be required for a pass, and that no candidate may sit for more than seven subjects. In regard to the marking of matriculation papers it was recommended that the marks assigned by examiner should be averaged, and that the average be treated as 50 per cent, of the maximum, and that the adjustment of marks assigned should be adjusted accordingly. The debate was adjourned till Monday.