MEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2924, 9 November 1916, Page 3

MEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY

THE BOARD OE STUDIES. The Board of Studios;of the New Zealand University continued its sittings yesterday. Professor Eastcrficld brought up tho report' of the Sir George Givy Scholarship Committee. The committee recommended that the Education Department be requested to allow the following changes in the regulations for the scholarships, (a) That the scholarships be awarded for excellence in two or more of the following subjects: —Mathematics, physics, botany, chemistry, zoology, geology, and physiology; (2) that the candidate bo allowed to hold tho scholarship together with tho University entrance or University Senior Scholarship.—The report was adopted. The resolution passed by the Council of Education urging that the higher leaving certificate should exempt tho holder from sitting for the matriculation examination was considered. The proposal was referred to a committee consisting of tho Victoria College representatives to report at next annual meeting.

A resolution was adopted on the motion of Professor Inglis that the Senate be asked to arrange for extra senior scholarships to bo made available for men who have served with the Forces at the front, _ and who resume their studies on their return. Professor Hight moved in accordance with notico that the Prescriptions for the B.A. Degree in History A be altered to read "Outlines of the history of England, with special reference -to social and political development, the mediaeval and modern periods to be prescribed for alternate years."—The motion was agreed to. It was decided to accept from candidates for the Diploma in Journalism as proof of having done practical work in journalism, evidence of indenture, or the certificate of an editor of a recognised 1 journal. In regard to a proposal that the statute of the Diploma of Journalism be repealed, th_ l board recommended that the Senate take no action this year. , The board did not approve of a proposal that a candidate for honoiirs in commerce should bo allowed the privilege _of substituting an essay for a thesis embodying tho results of individual research by the candidate. ProfessorEgerton submitted tho following motion: "That tho board consider whether aliens should be eligible for University and other scholarships." Professor Pickcrill suggested that I British subjects only should be eligible, and Professor Egerton accepted an amendment to this effect. The amendment was agreed to by 13 votes to 7. (The motion did not refer only to enemy aliens.) Dr. Hight brought up the report of the committee on marking for the matriculation examination. The committeo recomended that tho system of v <|ifferentiating between maxima of tho. subjects for examination suggested by tho special coimnitteo of tho Senate be not adopted, but that the present system of passing for matriculation bo retained 6ubjeot to tho following restrictions: (1) A pass in every one of the matriculation examinations shall bo required except that a candidate who passes in four subjects may if the character of his work justifies it, be granted a_ pass in a fifth subject. (2) A candidate shall be granted a partial pass in four subjects provided that his marks in the fifth subject do not fall below 60 per cent, of the pass mark in that subject.—This report was adopted. / The recommendation of the Entrance Examination Committee that a candidate for matriculatioa may tako two science subjects was adopted.