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UNIVERSITY ABMINISTRATION. VIEWS OF ; PEOTESSOR HASLAM, • "' "... (By, Telegraph.—Press Association.)'';'-.'■-■:'-vi '.'.'.-' Christchurch, 'October 13;; ; -. '.-; I . Professor Haslani, of Canterbury- Col-' -:': lege,..does not agree with: tKo.jthirteen: .;■ professors and educationists ''who havfei:' | signed ■■ a petition ■to Parliament stating .;; : 1 that the university administration.- and!, vj education in the Dominion arc unsound,-;; \ and asking.for.'a Parliamentary inquiry." - * It is'stated in the.'petition, amongst-'-: other things, that" sound learning is not. ■■'--?, promoted for the" development of prates- [\ sional training in . medicine, . education,, /-r; law, and applied science.•': "'. :'•.; .-, ~ •:] In.rogard to \tlie-. first bf;,these sub- ; j jects,' Professor..':Haslam said, to. a:.re- ■ .J porter, that; it was only/natural W-i for.'numbers of students to go 'Home- to. "■:} study / because the Hospital-; at: Otago, "■'■; i .where the modicina sonool .-.was. estab- -.'! lished,. contained-''.fewer .'beds: than-'the-:;'; town hospital- .at Cambridge,.. England, ,i and.the authorities' at Cambridge .would. ";•;'}, not-give- a degree 'on experience, iln the. ;| matter of thp institution thoyifeltthatit -.-;.' was so. inferior' that they insisted, upon ";<-.-_ 3 students studying for: two years in.- Paris, •■:'-'; JJerlin, or London. :' \ ; :\l;:'-. -.-'I

■The fact that,-in 1909, fortyreigjit New- 'Oj 'Zealanders passed, the 'medical:;examiiiar ; ;,';S tions at Edinburgh alone,"'.and'that, invft; 1808,..0n1y .students, were, \en-V.j rolled- at the.: New Zealand:'Medical, ~i School, was no proof that the' university ■■>• administration in the-Dominion i(as : far.'j as medicine, is concerned) is'.bad, indeed, it : 'was a bad thing, to give-a:-de-'-;i gree at all without.further hospital;prab-'v! tice-'fchan Duuedin : -,could' provide.; ..-' - : -! As., to' the objections to->homo . exam- j iners, he.; thought that the New,- ZealandY' s; universities should, have;'the best;ithat:-| could be:. It; was;: that the! present, method .of examination'';: was expensive and .cumbrous,' but, when ••;, the subject;.was by /tho' l senate, it was shown that : it would :ba at-leait; as expensive to :ha;re.;;the.ex- ; amining- done, . in; .v the - Dominion; r ; and ;; there ;was no doubt s that..itj : wou]d.be'. much more cumbrous; There' would havo';j to be a.board':of ■'■} examiners-rbne exain- .';,•! iner from. each , college, in ,every -subject.'- :{ They : would have to -ineet, together, "for .-j a; considerable time at great, At Cambridge,' perhaps .three ;or-four ex-■';,! aminers. lived in,'the. same, street,.' arid .i they.' sometimes"'.took.'."several -days, dis-:?j cußsing. the proper place for; the- results. r~, of one;student's examination.,: That,find -j of'thing, occurred.:.in•• 'corinectipn.' with;'_] every subject. ;;■■.' -v ; y N'.':Va'o -~™'~', .:■'; On another; point, it ;was'..urged-.that Home.examiners were not the-teachers or the"!colleges in, New .Zea-v ;1 land.' .:As a matter of, fact,'■;they, were i-i as. closely in:,touch;' with; them>:.as - the.'.',i{ professors ; in.' one "centre. .';here'; wer'e .touch. with;, professors :in/another. centre.'fi.Vi In; any 'case, - there; would; probably be;:;.; an/improvement : m. the. present .system,';':,; ,on. account 'of Mr..;- Jpynt, having been.. \i. x appointed university agent .'at ;;., r ; As 'to' the difference in 1 expenditure/in V;-: the; North Island';and tho'-South; Island,"; V; referred to in.the petition, fees.were madeY:;!"; absurdly- low'' in 'Wellington, ;in ;< order,;;;;; to .attract'.students/, when .Victoria' .Col-iK;] lege-was founded. ;: Besides that,' the dis- '■ . '■] trict -was;. ; extended,:;« far'; as;Westland:;v/3 That college; consequently received;.a largo":g; number ."'of i students,">' and-.'ithe Vprpjpesals ;v£\ set lout\in./the . petition were in'/ tiie,:direc-' ;H:i Hon -'of' centralisation, '■ whether 'intended : ; >m; to go in that'directionoorr r not,;'and -ceiy':;; v tralisation, of course;; ; meant .".Wellington ■■/. \} : w ;.' ; ' : ;;:r;;:AyckLANb-:;OP)NipNiS;i^ .J; ißr Telewipu.—Press Association.) ;"?',;,; ■ ;:Auckland, ;October 13. V^l Dr. Mliowell,: "a Imemberji of the' Senate, *; il of.';.the ..JJniversity :of ;Nev.r;'.Zealand;::inpS'5 an;interview;: took".exception- 'to; the stßte- J ,f.,: V, iment. in 'the .'■ petition presented to.:Parlia-';'";,'-; ment'that the! senate is a lay. body.'There;:"; are| he says, in .all,'some eight professbra-: oyon; the senate;.-- the other .members, in- y. .,' ;j eluding notable Educationalists, 'such'■ as.:;;-. Sir tt Stout.andSir'Charles Bowenls.Ho;,;:^ : agreed, ; 'however,.. ; be ,aa r /v : ? improvement, if ) the.■ professors could ;-meet,."».'.',; in : conferencb;' biennially or: .trienniaily.•;;<'•., He,,strongly supported'the'.retention .of.,^;. 'evening.l-clas'sesi- and the.''system'./;'pf':' , ex-tf;.'j terrial'examination;' '; j ;.>^vv'V.^ :: ;:; : -;' : ;:;^; ; ; J :. Professor, Segar, of ;rAucklahd r College, ,supported v the main 'points ':of.;:J;i; ■ the. petition.; he,;;says,' seriate • which: is at; presont;a "burlesque .' i or university goyerpjuent,'- mustbe radic-y^ : j ally; altbred in: x cphstitutibn;;;or;/clsb a.<y purely. academicalVbody, ; :cbnsisting of thby;;;; professors," niust:'be',set:upVas ■" a:-board■ oip?i studies.'' : '.;He : also strongly. 1 ' condemned';'v; the -system ''■ oi-.exterhal'. examinatipns ;;aa//;\ oufc ; of.; date..-.;; V-. "rvV.,''V;■'. ; >■■. ir: : i\k^'y':H:^ih-