THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

Evening Star, Issue 3649, 2 November 1874, Page 2

THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

The fourth session of the Otago Univers'ty ; closed on Friday Irsfc. The following is the • prize list: CLASSICS. In the order of merit ; .Senior Latin. Second Class; S. -n, I. Ferguson. Junior I atin, Second Class ; 0. Low, J. Blaokie, G. Niish, I), ’A hite. Junior Greek, 8e cond Class :J. Blaokie MATHEMATICS AND NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Students who have gai n'd at least 75 per cent, of the total mai ks are paced in toe first class, and these who have gamed 50 to 7 per cent, are marked as second class. The names are arranged in alphabetical order : First .year. - S-eond cdus ; Charles Banks, Matthew Begg, William Henry ! iutaheson, David Waite A special p;ize for geometry was awarded to Banks, Second year, -tec aid class: 11. S. Allan, E. G. C. Birina, James BLckie, Charles Low. A prize was awaroed to Low. Third year.—Second class : Saul Solomon, George A hilcombe. F-.urth year.— First c'ass: Peter Seton ray. Second el.ss : Gustav JLlirsch, George VVhitcomhe. MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Stueents who have gained 75 per cent, of maiks are plated in class 1 : those who hive gained 50 per cent, iu class 2. JUNIOR MENTAL SCIENCE. Class 1 : P. S. llay, prizeman. Class 2 : Jehu Allan SENIOR MENTAL SCIENCE Class 1 : John Ferguson, prizeman; James Wilkie. Class 2: David Borrie, Charles Connor. CHEMISTRY. The fallowing snuie ts received aLove 50 per cent of the atta.liable .marks ; I—Class examination; (diaries Low, 79 oer cent , fi.-st piizo ; G. <Barton, 70 percent ; John A:i.,n 7>d pur <;■ lit. ii.—Bo ulions of chnmcai problems : John ' 1 an. first priz >. 1 1 —Laboratory : Peter SC on Ray and James A. Will, equal ; priz ■, divided. GEOLOGY. The names are arrang d in.order of merit I : s. Solomon, first; G. W. Thomsm and J. Ferguson, equal. zoology. Cl as s 1 : S ‘•ioloiijoii, G. M. Tbon aon and J. Ferguson. LAW Prizeman : Herbert J. Webb. The following i s a list of students who matriculated last session, not previously reported : Fobert rime, Charles Low. George Aiondy, George Stuart iNeisb, and Joseph Secular. A student wives :—“ln the Honor T isL of the University, under mathematics, fourth he ter Soton Hay not only gets into the fir t elasi oi the order of merit, but also ta cs the prize. It may be stated that Hav cm; o d a firs a class, and took a prize in ma,,hematic* every year since the opening of the Umveisity, and that he occupies th.-> unique and enviable position of being the o.d\ mathematical student who has yet succeeded irt getting in o the first class of the order of merit since the establishment of the Gtago University.”