OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7778, 23 June 1904, Page 6

OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

The Chancellor's Address.

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Dunedin, Last Night.

At the " capping" ceremony this afternoon it was announced that nine Otago students had obtained the B.A. degree, throe the B.Sc. degree, and eight the M.B. degree. Two gained seven scholarships. The Chancellor, in his address, urged the colony to make suitable provision for the encouragement of original research, and recommended that the Senate should grant a research scholarship for two years every alternate year to the student distinguishing himself in research work, tor the completion of his studies at some Old World University. This scholarship should alternate with the English Exhibition one, and should be worth i>lso a year. He read extracts from the report of Professor Dixon, one of the English examiners, showing that in some subjects the teaching in New Zealand was equal to that ot the best teaching in the institutions in England. He strongly urged the establishment of a school of journalism, seeing that the colony had 200 newspapers, while 4134 persons followed journalism for a living. Seeing the enormous influence of the Press, its directors should, he said, be well versed in rnstory, humauitv, political science, jurisprudence, political economy and philosophy. He appealed to the wealthy colonists to imitate the United States,' whose liberal treatment of the higher education was enabling the Republic to turn out more educated men and women in proportion to its population than any other country in the would.