UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2418, 25 March 1915, Page 9

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

Sir,—l believe that in New Zealand it is quite a common thing for students who hjive "also started" in the race for University honours to make moving appeals for consideration at the finish. But I doubt whether anything ever reaches the Chancellor quite so touching as the enclosed appeal, which tho censor has allowed to reach' me from an officer in Egypt. It would appear that student life is very much the same on the banks of the Nile as in New Zealand—only moro so. My correspondent suggests that even, our Chancellor could hardly resist so'pathetic an appeal, especially with the "him" spelt with a capital TI.—I am, etc., .A. E. MEEK. Mr. Meek encloses in his letters the following from an Kgytinn paper:— Wo have received copies of two petitions which have been addressed to Sir Ilcnr.y M'Mahon and Mr. Dunlop respectively by Secondary School students who failed in tho recent Certificate examination bogging that their caso may bo reconsidered. The appeal to tho Higb Commissioner contains tho following characteristic passage:— "Now, in this golden age, especially after the Proclamation of the Protectorate, the Country is lend to-every success and prosperity, and it is, of course, against tho wish of the kind High Comniisninncr f.bnt. Mi 1 n curtain number of > Candidates is troubled and grieved for

being prevented from an examination after tliey are prepared to it; wliilo all the inhabitants are enjoying a peaceful and prosperous life. Our future and lives are now between the hands of His Highness the High Commissioner and wo are sure that a single word from Him to Mr. Dtinlop returns life and hope to this great number of unfortunate and miserable candidates. Tho Ministry of Education is allowed by the Law to exempt any one from these restrictions, and if it is impossible to m.alce general Exception this year, wo beg that the High Commissioner may be kind enough to tell Mr. Dtinlop to except those who passed tho Written Examination and failed in the Oral, and those who_ succeeded in the subjects and obtained nigh marks but failed in ono subject with one mark or two. Awaits "'e Mercy of His Highness the High Commissioner, wo are, etc."