THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143766, 15 April 1912, Page 5

THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.

DEGREES AND DEGREE SUBJECTS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 13. The University Senate met on Saturday morning to consider the results of the recent degree examinations, and other matters. There were present: i Sir Robert Stout (Chancellor), Professor J, W. Brown, Air. J. W. Tibbs, Professor J. R. Brown, Professor Right, Atr. G. Hogbcn, Hon. Dr. Collins, Professor R. J. Scott, and Air. L. Cohen. The senate decided that the exhibition science scholarship should be award-' od to Theodore Rigg, Victoria Collelgo. It was decided to ask the commissioners to award a scholarship to Percy William Burbridge. Reports were received from Alessrs. H. A. Thomson and F. L. Peck, outlining a scheme for a conservatoriura of music.

It was decided to forward copies of the reports to the Auckland University College. The provision that candidates for B.A. and LL.B. degrees must have passed in Latin as for matriculation was interpreter! to mean that the condition only applied to those candidates who have passed matriculation subsequent to the examination of 1910. A Bachelor of Medicine of Glasgow University was accepted as a student, having kept one year’s terms for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Oandidateos who have not completed, their engineering preliminary exam, may do so at the end of their first academic, year. , The marks in history for an entrance scholarship, which wore fixed at 600 at the recent annnal meeting of the senate, were reduced to 575 for this year only. The books in history for the B.A. degree for 1913 were prescribed as follow: Swift’s “Conduct of the Allies” and “Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs,” Steel’s “Crisis,” Bolingbroke’s “State of Parties at the Accession of George I.”. Hume’s Essays (Routlcdgc’s Universal Library edition). Part X, Nos. 2, 9 and 12, and Part 2, Nos. 7, 12 and 16, and “Additional Essays,” No, 3.

The following examiners were appointed : Latin (for matriculation), Professor Dettmann; zoology (for matricuUation), Professor H. B. Kirk; history (for entrance scholarship), Professor Hight; bookkeeping (for agriculture), Air. A. T. Clarke, A.0.A.; veterinary surgerv (for agriculture), Air. C. J. Reakes, AI.R.C.V.S.

Tho Hoben prize was not awarded, no candidate’s essay being up to tho standard. The amended courses in history for the B.A. degree and senior scholarship will como into force in 1913.

The following decrees were conferred: Bachelor of Engineering (electrical), William Leonard Parker; Bachelor of Arts, Agnes Gertrude Stonehaven Mer-/ ton.

Tho free passages offered by tho Orient Steamship Company annually were awarded, one to Philip Sydney Bridson, and the other divided between Theodore Bigg and Percy William Burbidge.

The engineering travelling scltolarship was awarded to Frwlerick Noel Hamilton Beamish, of Canterbury College. A graduate (M.A.) admitted ad eujidem was given permission to proceed. to the degree of doctor of literature.

It was decided that candidates who have passed in nil subjects except one or two of the first division subjects of the LL.B. degree must take three subjects to complete.