UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5505, 4 March 1896, Page 4

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

» r [Per Press Association.] - ' WELLINGTON, Mabch 3. The committee on subjects for the B.A. and B, Sc. examinations reported as follows: — ".(1) The committee recommends that in order to allow candidates for the 8.A.0r8. Sc. degree to offer' theemslves for examination in both French and ' German, these two languages be made separate subjects, and that the subject modern languages/ which as now defined presents the two as alternatives, be struck out, and that a proviso be inserted , that the candidate must not take up more than three languages in addition to Latin. (2) The committee is 'of opinion that the least unsatisfactory way of making biology ' a compulsory subject for the B. Sc. degree '< * and at the same time permittingstudents *i'c to take geology as an optional subject is to $, < amend the second section of the statute so as ,/Vto make mathematics, physical science/ % , chemistry and biology all compulsory, and fa, also to amend the fourth sub-section of the $ first section by putting biology in place of ? " natural. science, striking out the subject |^ * now, specified as an alternative with the [ 3 title 'Human Anatomy arid Physiology/ and making geology -an independent and 1 separate subject. The effect of this amendment would be that' a candidate who presented himself in geology with the four compulsory subjects would be required to take only one other subject, and if that other. Bubject ; ;were m T ental- science , he. might obtain his degree without presenting himself in any language subject. The. „ committee thinks <; that . this effect .was i ' j prottobiy riot 'cq^templatetl-by the teachers' *-" -wh<y#kfor.th.^ ' mend' thakthij ifliange. bjj- jgotj ::naade<_iii thei • - present ' sessiori'bf the Sein&teV'- ~sfhefi^m,-\ mendatibns of 'the committee yrere agreed to. The following undergraduates having passed the final section of the LL.B. examination had the degree of LL.B. conferred on them :— C. C. Buckland, W. Macalister, A. B. Haggitt, j. A. Scott, T. H. Gill,' E. M. Tolhurst and E. C. Cutten. The following candidates, admitted elsewhere, passed the examination for barristers:—A. R. Holdship and J. W. Proudfoot. The following candidates passed the final examination for solicitors: — J. . B." Beale, W. J. White, G. Ebbett, G. D. Lysriar, C. E. Nalder, H. C. L. Robinson,. .J. J. Patterson, P. B. Atkinson, J. W. L. Robinson, K. Douglas, W. H. C. Wigley, T. A. Lucas and A. G. Pilkington. The following passed in the first section bf the law examination for solicitors in the subjects set opposite their names: — -C. J. Wi'ay in contracts and torts and practice i and procedure, G. P. Wake in contracts \ and tortß and practice and procedure, V. Barker in practice and procedure. G.. W. C. ', Smithson in contracts and torts andprac- - *tice and procedure, W. G-. ; RiddeU , in contracts and torts and practice and procedure, J. Foy in contracts and torts, J. E. Wilson in practice and procedure, G. H. Thompson in contracts and torts and practice and procedure, H. J. M. Thomson in practice and procedure, G. H. R. Fenton in contracts and torts, E. P. Eeeve in contracts and torts, J. D. W. M'Beth in contracts and torts and practice and procedure, A. S. B. Forster in practice and procedure, P. A. Joynt in contracts ' and torts. : The Committee on Law Questions re- , ported that, in reference" to Mr Lucas's petition, referred to them, the Committee. . desired to point out that the petitioner asked that the decision of the Seriate in lfii&i should be 1 reversed. The committee saw" no reason to reopen the question. .The , report" was adopted; The committee on "The Exhibition 1851 " Science Scholarship" reported that it was % of opinion ,that the first paragraph of the , Statute of Science Scholarship should be modified so as to read as follows didates for nomination for any science scholarship offered by her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to members of the New Zealand University must be graduates of the University, and i) shall be required before nomination either '*• to have taken, or to -have been reported by < the examiners as entitled to take, first or ' second-class honours in chemistry or in " physical science or in mathematics and mathematical physics," and that in the < l second paragraph the words " for nominai' tiori" should be inserted after the word + "candidate." The recommendations of the 1 committee were agreed to.