UNIVERSITY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1763, 1 June 1906, Page 2

UNIVERSITY.

(P®r Press Association.) Auckland, last night. Tho ceremony of conferring deg'eaa in countcSion with the Auckland University Oollcgo look place at three o’olook this afternoon nt tho choral hall In the absence of the Chancellor, Sir Robert Stout, degrees were oonfotred by the ViceChancellor, tho Hon. C. C. Bowbd, M.L.0., wbogavo an addro> son classical and scionfcifio oduoatian. The present complaint as to clatsioal education was, he said probably due to a great extent to the old bjstem of teaching classios, but tho methods had now boon muoh improved. If c'as ios wero allowol to fall into aboyanoo the losb would bo serious to generator s to come The University of Now Zealand was desirous of providing ss far as possible for instruction in every branoh of human knowledge, and to give oppo’tunities to those with special leanings without it bolng necessary for them to go further afield.

Mr Joynt, the registrar, in his address made speoisl reference to the success of Ernest Chitty, a blind Bludent, whoso achievement was a to-na-kablo one. Two degrees were being ocn'ejrred for tho first time in the history of ihs Uuiversity, namely, those of Master of Boience and Master of Laws. These degroes were at present in an incomplete state owing to delay in tho issue of tho charter, but the delay would not bo of long duration.