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1880. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION. PAPERS RELATING TO THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Presented to both Souses of the General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

No. 1. Statement of Chaikman of the Boaeb of Govebnobs. At the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Canterbury College, held upon 12th July,. 1880, the Chairman's statement of the progress made and the work done in the several departments during the year was read, as follows: — On this the annual meeting of the Board of this College I propose to give the usual statement of the work done during the past year. The increasing attendance of students at the College lectures is gratifying evidence of steady and satisfactory progress. Last year 129 students attended classes, which, compared with the attendance of the previous year, shows an increase of 55 students. The number of students attending each lecture during the last term was as follows: Pass Latin (translation), 34; pass Latin (trans, and comp.), 26; pass Greek (translation), 3; honors Latin (trans, and comp.), 12; honors Latin (literary), 14; honors and pass Greek (trans and comp.), 5 ; honors Greek (literary), 4 ; Greek and Roman history, 6 ; Elizabethan literature, 34 ; Shakespeare's Henry IV. and V., 37 ; composition lecture, 32 ; Chaucer's Times, &c.,. 19; philological lecture, 18 ; Piers Plowman, 13 ; author's lecture, 13 ; Roman Empire, 11; Elizabethan period, 9; mathematics (lower division), 14; mathematics (upper division), 6; mechanics and hydrostatics, 6; advanced mathematics, 3 ; junior chemistry, 9; senior chemistry) 1; honors, chemistry,!; junior heat, 14 ; senior electricity, 5 ; laboratory practice, 9 ; junior geology, 1; senior geology, 2; junior botany, 1; senior botany, 2 ; junior zoology, 1; senior zoology, 1; French (University subjects), 6 ; French (senior), 3 ; French (junior), 2 ; German (University subjects), 1; German (senior),. 6; experimental science course, 36. The number of matriculated students last year was 34, showing an advance on the previous year of 11 students. The students of this College, James Hay, 8.A., and Frederick Fitchett, 8.A., entered at the recent examination of the University of New Zealand for honors and for the degree of M.A. They were both successful. James Hay is the first student of the University of New Zealand who has taken double first-class honors. He received a first-class in political science and a first-class in Latin and English. Frederick Fitchett took first-class honors in political science, including jurisprudence, constitutional history, general history, and political economy. He also passed the examination for the degree of LL.B. Out of the six students of the University of New Zealand who passed this year the final examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, five belong to this College—namely, Miss Anne Jane Bolton, Miss Helen Connon, William Henry Herbert, James Ronaldson Thornton, Herbert William Williams. Ten students of this College entered in the recent examinations for the first section of the B.A. degree, and all were successful. Two of these, however, entered under the teachers' regulations, which permit teachers of five years' standing to enter for the University examinations without passing the College examinations. The names of the ten students are: Miss Gertrude Grierson, J. G. L. Scott, Edwin Watkins, John Innes, Charles Chilton, Benjamin Michael Connal, William Bookless Douglas, William Fidler, Thomas Scbolfield Foster, Basil Keith Senior Laurence. Out of eleven senior scholarships given by the University of New Zealand on the results of the examinations lately held, seven were gained by the following students of this College: 0. Chilton, B. M. Connal, W. B. Douglas, W. Fidler, Gertrude Grierson, W. H. Herbert, and J. Innes.