ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22654, 20 August 1935, Page 11

ENTRANCE EXAMINATION

MARKING OF FRENCH PAPERS PROFESSOR STRUCK OFF LIST (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 19 The Auckland University College Council resolved to-day to approach the University Senate regarding a complaint by the Professorial Board of the college that the senate in committee last January had struck Professor Maxwell Walker off the list of examiners in French of 1936, and had intimated to the Academic Board that be would not be acceptable as an examiner in French for the entrance examination in future. The Professorial Board presented a long memorandum by the professor in which he stated that the senate had not given him an opportunity to be heard, and had not communicated its decision to him. It was only after the Professorial Board had inquired whether certain reports were true that the University authorities had admitted that those concerning its resolutions were correct. The University had since appointed him examiner in French for certain higher examinations, but apparently it still regarded him as unfit to examine in elementary French for entrance. The'Executive Committee of the senate had referred the whole matter to the senate at its meeting next January. , The College Council resolved to inform the senate that it considered that Professor Walker had a right to be heard, and that if necessary a special meeting of the senate should be called for the purpose. It was stated that the trouble had arisen becauSe the professor had repeatedly objected to the standard of entrance French as being too low for university purposes, and had marked the papers accordingly.