N.Z. UNIVERSITY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2925, 10 November 1916, Page 9

N.Z. UNIVERSITY

THE BOARD OP STUDIES The meeting of the Board of Studies ot tho University of New Zealand was siding Kstcrday, Professor Segar prowronSly reported yesterday that candidates for matriculation should bo allowed to take two sciences. The motion submitted embodying this proposal was actually rejected by 15 votos to. L In connection with tho recommendation for the appointment of examiners, the Board reaffirmed' previous resolutions as follows:—That there be two examiners in each of tho subjects biology, physics, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry. (2) That tho examiners be appointed in rotation from the teachers of affi'iated institutions, (dj liiat the senior examiner in each subject be tho Moderator.

The following motions, of which notice had been given, were dealt with as follows:—

Professor Dettmann moved:—That the Board of Studies meet each year at 10 a.m. on. the Tuesday nearest to the opening day of tho November degree examinations—Carried.

Professor Segar moved :-That the logarithmic tables at present supplied to candidates in university examinations bo replaced by Knott's four-figure mathematical tables.—Carried.

Professor Segar moved :-That the Board is of opinion that.it ought to be possible nnder such restrictions as may be considered necessary to complete the ordinary B.A. or B.Sc*. degree courses in two years.-rl/oet.

Professor Segar moved:—That entrance scholars should bo allowed to undertake remunerative work in the' long vacation. —Carried.

Professor Pickerill moved:—Representation of special schools on tho Boar<l of Studies—That . where the staff of a university college ' comprises professors' in special schools, one of the five seats for that college on the Board of Studies should be a rolling-office, and should bo allocated to tho representative of that special school whose recommendations are being considered by the Board of Studies, otherwise the seat to be filled by a representative'to the Science and-Arts Faculty.—Lost.

Professor Rankine Brown moved:—(l) That in prescription for honours in Latin, 1917, after "In Verrem Actio Secunda," there be added "except Book 111. Do Re Frumentaria." (2) That in prescription for B.A. pass in French. 1917, "De Tocoueville—L'Ancien Resriine," be substituted for "Do Tocquevil'le-La Democratic en Amerique."—Carried. Professor Gilrav moved:—English for entrance scholarship examinations—That tho prescription for Paper'B be altered to read as follows :-"T!ie'essential characteristics of prose and poetic diction; questions testing the candidate's know, ledge and appreciation of standard English authors from Shakespeare to Tennyson—a wide chcico of subjects' to be given."—Carried.

Professor Pickerill moved:—That no university college calendar be published in the New Zealand Calendar unless all four colleges consent to tho inclusion of their calendars therein.—Carried.

Dr. ,T. Eight moved:—That, in the opinion of this Board the BIA. degree with first-class honours' of Cambridge University as being substantially equivalent to the M.A. degree of New Zealand University is sufficient to entitle anyone possessing it to be a candidate for tho degree of Doctor of Literature.—Carried.

The Board diflcussed at length .Professor Rankine Brown's motion that there Rliall be two pass degrees as at present— B.A. and B.Sc. Professor Farr moved an amendment to stipulate that in the B.A. degree there should bo a liberal choice of subjects. With this amendment, the motion wa6 carried on the voices.

Proposals respecting courses in .Arts and Science were considered. On the motion of Professor Brown it was resolved that all candidates for a degree in Aits must either have passed ,in Latin at matriculation, or, failing that, must, pass in Latin up to matriculation standard before being granted the B.A. degree. It was agreed; also, on the motion of Professor Brown, that the B.A. decree may be taken as a four or fivesubject degree, or as a six-subject degree. The Board then went into committee on details of the courses, and tho committee reported progress at 5.30, the hour of rising for the day., The chairman reported that the following resolution had been carried in committee:— "That the principles of compulsion be not applied in respect of any individual subject." The meaning of this, resolution is, that no specific subject as, for example, English, Latin, or mathematics shall bo compulsory, but it will be open to the framers- of the Statutes to make it obligatory for a candidate to take one subject from each of certain specified groups.