THE UNIVERSITY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1349, 29 January 1912, Page 3

THE UNIVERSITY.

ANNUAL MEETING OF SENATE. The University .Senate continued its sossion on Saturday morning. The Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout) presided. DEGREE OF DOCTOR. Dr. Eight moved: That a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Literature, or Doctor of Science, or Doctor of Laws be required to publish his thesis or dissertation before it is accepted by the University. ' . That the published thesis or dissertation be first submitted to the teachers of the subject concerned in the affiliated colleges, and except upon the receipt of an unfavourable report from thorn, tho Senate shall submit the work to an examiner who is a specialist in the subject of the thesis. . '. All tho subject matter of this motion was discussed a day or two previously on a resolution affecting the degree of Doctor. The motion was carried without discussion. < ENGINEERING. Professor J. R. Scott (Canterbury College) moved the adoption of the report of the R«cess Committee on engineering and architecture. He pointed out that the main feature of the revision oF the course for B.Sc. in Engineering was the reduction of tho length of the course from five .years to four year?. Hitherto it had been permissible for a student to lake one year of his course at any affiliated college, spending four years at the Engineering School at Cantorbuxy College. Now n student was still allowed to take his first year at an affiliated college, and he was required to spend only three years at Canterbury. He hoped that this modification of the course would have the effect of preventing subsidiary, and necessarily less well equipped, engineering schools from being established in centres other than Canterbury. Mr. Hogben, speaking to the report, suggested that the course had still been left a very heavy one, and that probably it would be difficult for ordinary students to accomplish it in four years. The report was adopted.