THE UNIVERSITIES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2597, 14 June 1871, Page 2

THE UNIVERSITIES.

The , following resolutions, have,. been adopted by the Council of the Otago University ; . . As the time in which an amalgamation of the Universities under the Act of 1870 could have taken place has expired, and as it ,is desirable that steps should be taken towards effecting a union having an especial regard to the efficient locrtl administration of the University at Dunedin, and the security of the endowments of the University of Otago, it is resolved—1. That an Act of the.General Assembly should be obtained, enabling the New Zealand University and the Otago University to unite. 2. That the University of Otago shall have power to nominate as members of the Council of New Zealand University onethird'of the members couatltuling the same, whatever the number of such Council may be, which shall not be less than, 39. 3. That these members, together with any other members residing or present in Otago, shall be entrusted, under the direction of the Council, with the local administration of the University at Dunedin. 4. That should another or other Universities be established elsewhere in New Zealand, the University shall retain its present buildings and the landed endowment which has been provided by the Province, and shall participate in any endowments already made, or which may hereafter be made, from out of the Consolidated Revenue Of the Colony, in such proportion as .ttye. population of Otago

Shall bear to the (European population of New Zealand. 6. That all the engagement- and contracts entered into by the Council shall be binding on the new University. 6. That the members, referred to in Resolution 3, shall be constituted a corporation, with power to act in reference to the covenants. 7. That the province of Otago having endowed the Dunedin University with an estate, containing 100,000 acres, it should be exempted from any further a'ienatioa of laud under the “New Zealand University Act, 1868.” 8. That the transfer of this estate and of the University Building shall be contingent on, and be. made simultaneously with, the issue of Crown Grants to tho New Zealand University for those lands which it is authorised to take under the Endowment Act; and that Such transfer and be within six months from the date of ; the prorogation of the next session of the General Assembly. ’’ „ ', . ■ The following resolutions, moved by the Bishop of Christchurch, have been carried in the Sul>Cdmmittec of the New Zealand University Council . ’That whereas the Council has affirmed that arrangements should be made by which one University alone should* exist in New Zealand, with affiliated Colleges j this Conn, cil earnestly recommends that the University of Otago should he affiliated to or brought into union with the University of New Zealand, with full control over its endowments, and over thpse which may hereafter, be conferred op it from out of the Consolidated Rovepuc pf-tho oniony.. ffihat tho University of Otago thus affiliated should have, under the direction of its own Council, the local administration of. the otago University, and that the members of the said Council bfe constituted a corporaton..

That the power of conferring degrees rest with the University of Kew Zealand alone, and that, arrangements be made with the affiliated College or University of Otago under which its professors arm tutors may form a part of the Board of Examiners. , The sab-coinmittee of the How Zealand University Council recommend, the adoption of the following conditions on which 'collegiate institutions m>y be affiliated to the University ;—That it shall bo shown to the satisfac'ion of the Council that such institutions are competent to supply, through their teachers and lecturers, adequate instruction in at least three of.the following branches of education, or in such other branches as may bo determined vipou by the.Council, viz., classics, mathematics, and natural philosophy, modern languages other th.»n English, physical science, English language and literature, general history, mental and moral philosophy. It is recommended that the funds Should be appropriated thus j—LlUOu to bp devoted to* the establishment of > twenty scholarships to be awarded for proficient) , in one qr more of the subjects (.numerated above ; one scholarship in each branch to be of the value of li7(>; the remainder of each, the tenure of the schoolarship to be the University course. In estimating the comparative merits of candidates, ma ked proficiency in any one branch of the examination—oven if the should be marked deficiency in the remainder—to be rated higher than a superficial knowledge of a greater number ef subjects. LISOO to be appropriated for the establishment qp svibswiaffig in bfi)l' J ded inetrtutjopS qf proffisgorships pr fectiirc ships.