UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume L, Issue 14884, 26 January 1914, Page 2

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

MEETING OF SENATE.

ANNUAL EXAMINATIONS,

(rBESS ASSOCIATION TELECRAM.) . DUXEDIX, January 34. Tho session of the University Senate was continued to-day. Tho following resolution was received from Canterbury College:—"That the Senate be earnestly recommended to alter tho provisions for keeping terms in such way that no student who presents himself for a section of a degreeexamination in any year need bo examined by his college within two months before the beginning of tho University examination.' . After discussion it was agreed to alter the statute to allow of the annual examination being held between August Ist and tho University examination. ESSAY PRIZES. Mr yon tlaast brought up a report of the JJowen priza examiners. It was recommended that-the subject of tho essay for 191-3 be "'England in Egypt." J'ne prize for last year was won by Werner Heine, of Victoria College, Wellington. The Haydon j>rize (donated by the late Mr Joseph Lfaydon for the encouragement of Imperial sentiment) was re-l-orted to have been won by Jrl. i\. of Utago University. MATRICULATION. The report of the Recess Committee oh tno i-'uccMioer examinations contained the loil.ov.ing: —"'I ho number of candidates was, ior matriculation, etc., I'.ioO, for Royal ■ .Utlilaiy Uouege entrance '20, for entrance scholarships lb'J, total 15i_'. Tno fecnatc considered a proposal that under certain conditions the leaving certificate of approved secondary schools be accepted as exempting the holders thereof from the matriculation examination. Tlieeproposal was put forward by the Rev. A. Cameron, who moved accordingly, with the following addition: "(2)' That the Wellington Recess Committee be appointed (a) to set out conditions on which such certificates will be so accepted, (b) to prepare a list of secondary schools, (3) that the committee report to the next meeting of tho Senate." The mover said that he did not desire in any way that i tho matriculation standard should be lowered. He wanted to make that quite clear. He did not think that tho danger of lowering tho matriculation standard came from pupils who we?it to tho University, but thought that tho danger was in regard to those pupils ■who had been at the secondary schools only for a very limited period, or had not been there at all. It would not be difficult for the Senate, guided by the Recess Committee in Wellington, to frame provisions under which tho leaving certificate of approved schools would secure the maintenance of the standard of matriculation. He thought that the proposal, if agreed to, would raise the standard of students rather than lower it. That had been the result in Germany, where the system was practised. One of tho great evils in tho secondary schools was that tlio pupils did not remain there long enough, and thoir short presence only disorgan-! ised tho schools. If anything could be j done to keep the boys and girls longer in the secondary schools those seeking to prcpnro themselves for university work or for a high standard of education, it should bo done. And to that end it might be provided that a certificate would only "be given to a pupil who had remained in a high school for, say, four years. He believed ■ that the secondary schools were fettered by this outside examination.. From the "■day" that "•' hoys went to tlio si'hool to the day they left they and rhciij teachers,had this ex-« animation in view, an examination, over which they-had <no control. r ' Pi-ofeasor J.I. R Brown .seconded the motion. Ho said'the.*.proposal was to some extent on the American lines, although it went a littl© , beyond that standard. He thought it was well worth investigating, and seeing if a satisfactory scheme could bo evolved. Tho Chancellor"said it appeared'that thero "were to bo no external examinations of students at the University, and uoiu> for pupils of secondary schools. A leaving certificate was to do everything, and tho .teacher was to say that his pupil was fit for the University. If thero was to be an examination, the Senate ought to apnoint the examiner. That was the whole f|ues£ion. Ho pointed out that tho London University examined schools and examined.' students in tho matriculation examination. He foresaw danger of the Church question being introduced, .and emphasised tho need of examination. The motion was rejected by 13 votes to 8. . • . EXAMINERS. The Senate adopted the Law and Finance Committee's recommendations, that tho following examiners be appointed for 1914: — Honours in law and LL.M.; contracts and torts, negligence, mistake, misrepresentation and fraud, Mr W. Bow- ; stead, 'Londoii. Company law and bankruptcy, Mr T. 13. Napier, LL.D., London. LL.B. and Law Professional Contracts, Mr J. MacGregor. Property, (I.) Mr J. C. Stephens; property (II.), Mr G. T. Weston, 8.A., LL.B. Evidence, Mr William MacAlister, LL.B. Criminal law, Mr O. T. J. Alpers. M.A. Torts, Mr F. J. Rolleston, 8.A., LL.B. Procedure, Mr W. A. Stout, 8.A.. LL.B-. New Zealand law, Mr W. Downio Stewart, LL.B. (for barristers and solicitors admitted elsewhere). Commerce, rights and duties of trustees under will and receivers, Mr M. W. Richmond. B.Sc, LL.B. Bankruptcy, Mr W. C. 'MacGregor. Joint stock companies, Mr A. S. Adams. Mercantile law j and industrial law, Mr W. D. Campbell, 31.A., LL.B.