UNIVERSITY SENATE
AGRICULTURE INCLUDED IN B.A. COURSE. fiy Telegraph—Press Association. Duncdin, January 18. The report of the Degrees and Commerce Committee on the question discussed by the University Senate yesterday. of the handicap considered to exist in favour of students taking languages as ail advanced subject in the B.A. course, was considered and adopted. It contained an amending proviso "that a candidate who takes languages as advanced subjects shall take three other subjects at the pass stage." The Board of Studies amendments to the B.Sc. course were also adopt?d. These cut out the clause inserted by the Senate last year, providing for a language or other non-science subject in addition to the scienco subjects.
An important innovation, the inclusion of the subject of agriculture in the B.A. course, was carried by the University Senate by 15 votes to 7. The motion ivas then referred to tlio Board of Studies, with a request to draw up a syllabus of agriculture.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 8
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159UNIVERSITY SENATE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 8
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