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With the increase in the number of students who live away from home, the demand for a hostel, more particularly for the women students, grows more urgent. Careful inquiry is made with the object of ensuring that the students select quarters where facilities for study are afforded; but the present arrangements can be regarded only as preliminary to something better, as they lack the opportunities for proper supervision and the development of that corporate spirit that is a prominent and desirable feature of community life.

DUNEDIN. Number at Present. —There were admitted in 1916 10 men and 54 women, the total numbers at the beginning of the year being 22 men and 105 women. Of these, 2 men and 8 women left during the year, making the present numbers 20 men and 97 women, viz. : First-year students, 9 men and 52 women; second-year students, 11 men and 45 women. Volunteered for Active Service. —Of the men who entered College in 1913, nineteen volunteered out of twenty-one; in 1914, eleven volunteered out of eleven; in 1915, nine volunteered out of twelve, the last return not being complete. The 1916 entrants are mostly too young, but it is thought that there will not be more than four senior men in College next year. Most of the above are at the front. Three have been killed and several wounded. It will be a fine thing for the teachers of the coming generation to have among their ranks such a large number of men who have fought and risked all for their country, and any present sacrifice is worth it from every point, of view. The subjects taught were as follows : —

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Subject. First-year Students. Second-year Students. Number of Hours per Week. 1. At College:— Education (junior and senior) Method, &c. Handwork Home science Agriculture Drawing Vocal music Drill Hygiene Needlework Kindergarten Nature study Elocution Physical measurements Woodwork 61 61 61 40 21 61 53 61 61 17 44 56 56 42 22 56 53 56 56 2 and. 5 7 and 2 2 and 1 3 and 3 2 and 3 3 and 1 2 arid 1 1 and 1 2 and 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 45 61 61 9 9 2. University subjects :— Education English (junior) English (senior) .. English (C.) Latin (junior) Latin (senior) French (junior) French (senior) Mental science Mathematics _ . Economics History Physics (junior) .. Ghemistry Geology 18 38 1 39 9 6 2 6 2 1 12 2 I 44 9 32 6 5 3 I. 9 5 1 3 2 5 3 or 5 _ 3 5 4 5 5 5 5 3 3 9 9 7 At the University class examinations students passed as follows : ' class., 65; first class, 4. Of the present students, two have passed the degree, and are sitting for the second section; thirteen are sitting for and one for first section of B.Sc. degree. liird class, 138; second first section of the B.A. the first section of B.A.,