CANTERBURY COLLEGE

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 226, 28 October 1914, Page 9

CANTERBURY COLLEGE

BOARD OF GOVERNORS. MONTHLY MEETING. The Board of Governors of Canterbury College met yesterday afternoon, Mr J. C. Adams presiding. There were also present—Bishop Grimes, Messrs T. W. Adams, L. B. Wood, C. H. Opie, G. Rennie, H. Boyd, W. g. Montgomery, G. .1. Smith, T. Hughes, and W. Izard. The Finance and Estates Committee recommended that the following resolution passed by the Board on August 31 be rescinded:—"That the consent of the Board be given to the transfer of the lease of reserve 933 from John 0. Redfern to James Slattery, farmer, of Bagnor, and that the chairman be authorised to affix the seal of" the college to-deed of assignment." This was agreed to. The committee also recommended:— That the consent of the board be given to the transfer of the lease of blocks 3 and 4, of reserves 675, from Mrs Margaret Cameron to Alexander McAuley, farmer, of Otaio, and that the .chairman be authorised to affix the seal of the college to the deed of assignment. UNIVERSITY AMENDMENT BILL. That the board's attention be drawn to the fact that under the New Zealand University Amendment Bill, no new grant has been made to Canterbury College, while the grants to the other colleges have been largely increased. They consider that the present grant of £2OOO is inadequate, and that the college needs £3OOO a year, in addition, for building purposes, until the college buildings are completed. They recommend that urgent representations be forwarded to the Government to this effect. In regard to the' last clause of the report, Mr Montgomery pointed out that whereas the grant to the Canterbury College was for specialisation in engineering, the grants to the other universities were for the general purposes of the colleges. The Canterbury members of Parliament should be at once communicated with and apprised of the resolution. It was the course of the Government and previous Governments' to leave Canterbury College out of the grants. Mr Seddon had done it, Sir Joseph Ward had done it, and, he regretted to say, Mr Allen was doing it. The chairman said they must take away,.in the case of each of the other two universities, £2OOO, because there had been granted in each case £2OOO for specialisation. In the case of Auckland the grant was for mines, Wellington for law and allied subjects, and Otago for medicine. The grants were, therefore, £7OOO, £7OOO, and £3OOO respectively. The motion was agreed to, and it was decided that the copy of the resolution be sent to the Government and the Canterbury members of Parliament. The committee's report was adopted. CURRICULUM COMMITTEE The report of the Curriculum Committee of the Professorial Board, as amended by the College Committee, was presented to the board. The main features were:— That Regulation IV. (2), p. 75, be amended as follows: —Add at the end, "A student who desires to repeat two subjects shall consult the professor of that subject which may be regarded as the more important." That a new Regulation IV. (3) be inserted, as follows: —"Every matriculated student shall obtain from his tutor at the beginning of every year a card, which shall be used according to the directions printed upon it. He shall retain a duplicate 'of his card, which he shall show on demand to any professor or lecturer of the college." That a new Regulation IX. be inserted, the present IX. (on exhibitions) being abolished, as follows:—(a) After the annual examination in each year, prizes may be awarded in the-following subjects:--Latin, Greek, pure mathematics, applied mathematics, English, French, German (two subjects), physics.

chemistry, botany, zoology (two subjects), geology, mental science, history, jurisprudence and constitutional history (one subject), economics, and education. (b) Av separate prize -in each subject may be awarded at. each of the three standards, lower, higher, and repeat. (c) Each prize shall consist of books or instruments, to be selected by the prizewinner with the approval of the examiner.' (d) All books shall be stamped with the college arms; the total value of each prize shall be approximately; £3 3s, and if the cost "exceed that sum, the excess shall be defrayed by the student. Each scientific instrument awarded shall be suitably inscribed, (e) In awarding prizes the Professorial Board shall take into account the attendance, conduct, and progress of the student as well as the examination marks. ;'(f).'No student shall receive a prize unless he-keeps the terms of his year. That the establishment of the £IOO fund, for assisting deserving students who are unable to complete their college .course without financial assistance, be officially communicated to the Students' Association and printed in the college calendar. Such grants in aid shall not exceed £2O each, and shall be made on, the recommendation of the chairman of the Professorial Board privately and confidentially communicated to the Board of Governors. That the proposed change in regard to classification be - adopted, the candidates to be arranged in separate classes in each subject and at each standard, the candidates in classes 1 and 2 to be arranged in order of merit, but in class 3in alphabetical order. The results to be printed in the college calendar in three columns, approximately, as is done in the Victoria College calendar. - SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING. 9 The chairman called attention to- a report of a meeting of the Auckland University Council. It was the intention of the Auckland Council, he said, to again approach the senate at the meeting in February to establish a school of engineering in the Auckland district. In reading through the report he could see it was absolutely necessary if they wanted to protect their school of engineering and to strengthen the hands of their representatives oil the : senate, that they should consider the claims that were put forward with a view either to refuting them, or, if they could not do that, they could support them. He thought they could refute most of them. They should go through them thoroughly, in order that Ho point should be missed that might be brought forward in support of there being at the present, at all events, one school of engineering in New Zealand. He asked that a committee be set up to consider the report of the Auckland Council, and report to the next meeting of the board. —The motion was agreed to, and the following were appointed to the committee: —Messrs Seager, Smith, Aelaud, Wood, and the mover. OTHER MATTERS. The College Committee recommended: —That the attention of the Minister of Education be drawn to the fact that the board objects to section 12, subclause 3, of the New Zealand University Amendment Bill, which gives the senate authority to delegate its powers to a Board of Studies. On the motion of the chairman a vote of sympathy was passed to the parents of Mr Chas. A. Robertson, late assistant in the biological laboratory, whose death occurred recently. \ The Professorial Board notified that the conditions under which the Professorial Board might be represented by a member of the College Committee of the board had been accepted. They desired, while accepting this compromise, to make it clear they could not accept it as final, and would never cease their demand for full representation on the governing body.