UNIVERSITY COUNCIL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 13

UNIVERSITY COUNCIL

MONTHLY MEETING The monthly meeting of the council of the University of Otago was held yesterday afternoon and was attended by the chancellor (Mr W. J. Morrell), Sir James Allen, Sir Liudo Ferguson, Drs J. K. H. Inglis and James Fitzgerald, Archdeacon Fitchett, the Rev. D. C. Herron, Messrs L. Deans Ritchie, J. Wallace, J. Robertson, J. W. Dove, C. M. Gilray, J. C. Stephens, F. W. Mitchell, and J. M. Butler. GRADUATION CEREMONY. The Professorial Board advised that it approved of a report of the committee of deans in respect to the graduation ceremony. The report recommended that the newly appointed professor of philosophy (Mr J. N. Findlay) should give the inaugural address, and that Dr T. A. Hunter, of Victoria College, deliver the oration. Mr Stephens was assured that the report did not settle the question of the admission of students to the ceremony. MINING COURSE. The chairman of the Professorial Board forwarded the following recommendation from the mining faculty in regard to the A.O.S.M. course: —“That Mathematics II (Calculus only) betaken in the second year instead of the third year, and Surveying I be taken in the third year instead of the second year; that Petrology II be deleted from the fourth year in A.O.S.M. (mining and metallurgy) and that Applied Mechanics II (engineering construction and graphic statics, laboratory) be 'substituted, the fee to be £2 12s 6d.” The recommendation was approved subject to its also being approved by the Professorial Board. PHYSIOLOGY DEPARTMENT. Dr N. L. Edson tendered his resignation from his position in the Physiology Department as from January 31 next. Dr Malcolm also wrote referring to the great loss which his department would suffer as a result of the resignation. He suggested that a notice be put up in the Medical School inviting applications for the vacancy at £250 a year, the salary at which Dr Edson began. It was decided to advertise the position at £250 a year, and a committee was set up to go into the question of staffing with Dr Malcolm. GENERAL. Dr Gregory wrote accepting the duties of acting head of the Home Science Department. On the recommendation of the Professorial Board it was decided to appoint Professors Adams and Lawson as members of the District Council of the Workers’ Educational Association. The registrar of the University of New Zealand wrote advising that Mr Findlay had been approved as a professor of the University of New Zealand. Dr Benson was granted authority to spend £5 in the publication of the results of an expedition to Preservation Inlet. Dr Carmalt-Jones wrote asking for a further grant of £25 from the Barnett Fund towards the next publication of the proceedings of the Medical School. —Approved. Advice was received from the Otago Institute that Mr J. S. Thomson had been re-elected to the Committee of Management of the Museum. Dr Jack was granted four days’ leave of absence to allow him to accept a seat on the committee appointed by the Government to report on the use of geophysics in mining. WORKS COMMITTEE. The Works Committee reported that the Department of Labour had advised that the application to undertake building work under No. 10 scheme had been approved. —The letter had been received. It had been resolved to draw the attention of the City Council to the condition of the Memorial Walk in Leith street. The report was adopted. FINANCE COMMITTEE. The Finance Committee reported that it had considered a report from the chairman and registrar in regard to the reduction of the rents of Castle street tenants. It had been resolved to defer action until a statement had been prepared in regard to the rest of the town properties. Dr Benson had asked permission to expend up to £SO in the purchase of apparatus while in England. This had been approved on the understanding that the amount would be charged against the next two years’ allocations. The report was adopted. HOME SCIENCE COMMITTEE.

The Home Science Committee reported that it had considered the fee for voice production. It had ascertained that this subject had been part of the curriculum previous to 1927. In this year, however, the Education Department had declined to pay the fee for voice production charged on account of holders of home science bursars, who constituted a large proportion of the class. It appeared that the class was consequently dropped until the year 1931, when a private arrangement was made for the tuition of students at £1 10s each. In 1933 the tutor had undertook to teach the class at £1 Is per head, and the fees of the diploma students had been increased accordingly, but, by an oversight, the dean of the faculty had not requested a similar addition to the fees of degree students. —The committee was of opinion that this subject was a most important one for a teacher, and was therefore more important for degree than for diploma students. The committee, therefore, recommended that the degree fees be increased by £1 Is. The committee had also considered the question of exchange student from Denton. College and recommended that the student should be accepted, it being understood that she should be made fully acquainted with the position. She should be informed that the M.H.Sc. course covered two years, while the exchange agreed to was for one year only. The report was adopted. HOCKEN BEQUEST.

A sub-committee set up to allocate the income from the Hocken bequest made the following recommendations: —(a) That £IOO per annum be allocated to the Hocken Library; (b) that £75 per annum be allocated to the Hocken Library for a period of four years to enable the Hocken Library account to repay its indebtedness; (c) that £IOO per annum be allotted to the arts and general account towards the payment of the lecturer in ethnology, and that lie hereafter be known as the “ Hocken lecturer in ethnology”; (d) that the balance of the income be divided among the faculties in the same proportion as the income of the Tait bequest was allocated except that the allocation to arts and general be one-half of the allocation on the above basis. The recommendations were approved. MEDICAL STUDENTS. After discussion in committee on the admission of students to the Medical School it was decided that a circular should be sent to all secondary schools in October advising students intending to take first year classes in biology, chemistry, and physics, to enrol before February 3.