UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 3

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

(Per United Press Association.) DUNEDIN, January 28,

The University Senate resolved that the recommendation of the Board of Studies re the ©establishment of a diploma of social science be referred to the committee to consider the passibility of reducing the proposed prescription for the diploma course, and to report to' an allied meeting of the Senate. A committee was appointed to report to this session on the question of diploma or education entrance examination. The committee did not recommend the Senate to extend provisional matriculation beyond the case of soldier students.

With the object of promoting in How Zealand a better knowledge of the French language and literature, the Arts and Commerce Committee recommended that a travelling scholarship in French be offered every year, commencing this year, of tbe annual value of <£2oo tenable for two years. This was adopted.

DEGREES CONFERRED. The University Senate conferred the following degrees:—Master of Arts, Edwin Arthur Anderson (Otago University); Master of Laws, Francis L. G. West (Victoria College); Bachelor of Arts, Conrad H. E. Strack (Victoria College) and David G. Wilson (Canterbury College); Bachelor of Science, Alex. Thomson (Auckland College); Bachelor of Laws, Norman R. W. Thomas (Auckland College); Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Emma. G. Applegarth, Leslie G. Bell, and R. S. J. Fitzgerald (Otago University); Bachelor of Surgery, Douglas G. Macpbexson (Otago University); Doctor of Medicine, Henry H. E. Vivian and Robert H. Wylie (Otago University); Bachelor of Science in Home Science, Frances M. Blake (Otago University). The proposals for the institution of a Diploma in Education, as set out in the report of a special committee contained in the minutes of the Senate, 1918, were approved, and a committee consisting of the Vice-Chancellor (Professor MacMillan Brown), Professor Eight, and Dr Anderson, was set up to consider and report to the Senate.

It was decided to approve the institution of a Diploma in Forestry, as recommended by the committee. It was resolved that the December Exams Committee for 1921 consist of Professors MacMillan, Brown, Hight, and Segar, and Drs Anderson and Cameron.

It was resolved to increase the value of travelling scholarships in arts from .£l5O to J2OO.

It was resolved that the subject for the Habens Pries; for 1920 be the same as that for 1919, in which no thesis lias been offered, and that the examiners be J. S. Tennant, Professor Hunter and Dr Anderson. A councillor remarked that it was a very extraordinary thing that young teachers had not taken trouble to compete for this prize. He could not understand it.