UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 30 January 1913, Page 51

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

(Per Press Association.)

AUCKLAND, Jan. 29

The -annual session of the Senate of the '.Ljniverlsity of New Zealand was continued to-diay.

It was resolved that <a special meeting of the Senate should be held in Wellington <a fortnight after the receipt of the reports from the English examiners, with power to award degrees, honours and scholarships for the 1912 examination, and the next annual meeting of the Senate 3 was fixed to be held in Dunedin on Jan. 17, 1914.

A lengthy report was presented by the Medical Committee1. It stated approval of the report furnished by Mr. W. P. Johnston, holder of a medical travelling scholarship. The recommendations of the faculties of medicine and dental surgery were approved, except the proposal by the dental faculty that compensation should be allowed to candidates, who liad shown excellence in one subject but had done indifferently, in one other subject* It also approved, the resolution of the medical "faculty regarding; candidates who failed at the final professional examinations in not more than two subjects, And adopted the recommendations of the dental faculty in regard to an intermediate examination for M.B. and B.D. degrees. Tho Senate having affirmed the principle that permission should be obtained for students to attend at the four city hospitals far clinical practice, the committee suggested that the medical faculty should be requested to suggest a scheme for carrying out the proposal. The Science Committee reported its opinion that the choice of subjects for State research scholarships is already sufficiently wide. It made no recommendation regarding the annual value of these scholarships. The committee proposed that University scholarships should bo established for the enoouTagem:?nt of research, these scholarships to 1)0 held by graduates only, and recommended that the committee should draw up a scheme for reward and tenure of suggested scholarships for the next session. The report was adopted. Upon the report by the Music Committee, it was decided that the matter of the Oonservatorium of Music should ho left in the bands of the council of tho Auckland University College, and th-at the Senate should take no further action until the whole scheme is submitted for its approval by the College council. It was agreed that the looses Commitce should, if necesary, confer with the College Council.

The Senate decided that ten junior scholarships should be awarded in the l>p.oember examination of 1913.

I>r J. C. Bradshow, Musical Director of Christchurch. was appointed examiner in history of music.