UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 417, 28 January 1909, Page 3

UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

v^V ! :-y'-.-M-"'-.' ,''■:»;', ./--. ;'-:u::.-:,:: 1 .;- ... FBI, TII-EaEIPn.—SP*CIAI. CORRKSpoSnUNT] ,:: x ; v .-.-• ■ 'Auckland, January 27.' : ; The most' important question under discussion at yesterday's session;of.the- \ Senate of' the' University pf New Zealand was in connection with ; the 8.A).ani1.8.50.. degrees.': A Recess ': Committee, recommended to.the consideration; of the senate several; suggestions of Dr..-, Starr, Jordan, .to provide for . the riivi.sion,'oL | the./degrees referred' tp under,intermediate, and final courses.- The details'of the .scheme',.'-.which;, were of a- technical' nature, were fully gone into, and eventually, a'motion .-was carried, referring the whole matter io' the .Professorial 'Boards v. of !> the -various (university colleges. The'scheme itself did not' meet,.with unanimous 'approval," some of its opponents, .'including■.the■.., Chancellor..'''(Sir 'Robert Stout), deeming it'to , be'-.imprac-ticable..';:. ,T ; hei Chancellor said . the..'scheme meant asking to tako'.six courses in one-, year'.; instead'of .'-four. -No: one could berexpected to. pass ;in ono year. the ; subjects -the -university, now; required two "years for, .unless a specially! excellent .junior scholar. The: scheme'was-utterly, inapplicable to: the majority of our, studentsl ; Unless the' intermediate courso'was made.lower, not a fourth of the students: \vould ; pass at the. end of 'the first year .'under..the scheme. tlt inevitably meant lowering, the New .Zealand 1 degree.. ■Was: it a .scheme- to.bother the Professorial 'Board with? : There;were two question's for. the; senate:—(l) 'Ought .they\toLmako the B.A.'a more,: intense culture, and: (2) ought they, to lower "the. B.A. degree?..-' . ' . . .