UNIVERSITY CONGRESS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18086, 26 January 1921, Page 9

UNIVERSITY CONGRESS.

(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Jan. 25. The Hon. J. A Hanan moved at a meeting of the Senate of the New Zealand University to-day that included in thg subjects which a candidate must pass at the medical preliminary examination should be the subject of science, and that a candidate should be required to pass in six subjects. The motion was seconded by the Hon D. Cgl'lins. Dr. Anderson Director of Education, moved as an amendment the addition of the words, “involving the exclusion of Latin as a compulsory subject.' Professor Hunter proposed that the matter be referred to a special Dun. edin committee co consider the whole question of entrance to the University. Professor MacMillan Brown, in seconding Professor Hunter’s amendment; agreed Khat the English composition or many entrants showed that the standard had dropped below zero. Some of the answers given were perfectly infantile. • Some might have been conceived in a mental hospital 1 The English was simply deplorable. The University would fall below secondary school except for a few brilliant students if this de. tenoration of intelligence persisted. The Chancellor urged that it would be unwise to raise the entrance examination too high. Both amendments were lost on the voices, the original motions were adopted, and it was decided to refer them +o the Bpard of Studies.