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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5409, 29 July 1878, Page 2

Aimnost the documents presented to the Assembly on Friday last are papers relating to the University of New Zealand. The annual report states that in reference to certain reserves which, under the provisions of the University Endowment Act, require to be defined and proclaimed, fresh legislation is necessary, as the time within which this should have been done has lapsed, and until a Bill is passed the institutions having a beneficial interest in these reserves are suffering a serious loss. It is gratifying to learn that the institutions affiliated to the University have continued to do their work satisfactorily during the past year. There are now in the University nine graduates on jvhom the degree of Bachelor of Arts has been conferred by the University after examination. Sixty-five graduates from other Universities have been admitted ad eundcmgradam.' The number of matriculated undergraduates on the books of the University is now ninety-four. The Senate has had under its consideration the question of granting medical degrees. As yet, however, it has not had before it all the information necessary to enable it to decide upon a matter of such serious importance. .His Excellency the Governor is requested to cause application to bo made to the authorities of the London, University for the extension to this colony of the scholarships established by the Gilchrist Educational Trust. The Senate has made the following amendments to the statutes and regulations, which amendments are submitted fob the 'Governor’s approval";— For the purpose .of awarding the senior scholarships, it is provided that there shall be added to the examination papers for the B.Ai’ degree questions on the subjects of examination, for the express and sole purpose of awarding scholarships, and no senior scholarship is to be awarded unless the candidate exhibit a degree of proficiency satisfactory to the examiners. There are to be four scholarships, called third-year scholarships, of the value of £6O each, tenable for one year. Two of; these scholarships are to bo awarded for excellence in Greek ; one for proficiency, in chemistry and experimental physios ; and one in natural science. These scholarships are to bo awarded to students who shall have obtained the highest number of marks in the several subjects at the examination for the degree of 8.A., provided always thatat least half-marks shallhave been obtained, and that the student shall have passed for the degree. The examination for the B.A. degree, and also for honors, is fixed for some day in December in each year. Students of the Otago University who matriculated before affiliation with the NewZealandUniversity may, at their option, be deemed matriculated students of the University of New Zealand, and the terms which they hare kept at _tho former University may bo recognised by the latter. In reference to the terms to be kept, and the examinations to be passed for obtaining the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor of Laws, the following regulations are submitted: —Candidates for the former must pass four University examinations—two' at the end of their first year, viz., one in Arts, in ' the compulsory subjects of- examination tor the degree of 8.A.; and one in Law, of which the subjects shall be: —l. Jurisprudence ; 2. English language and literature ; 3. History of the British ;Empiro. 4. Bolitical economy. The subjects of the third examination shall be; —l. Homan law ; 2. Constitutional law ; 3. The law of property; 4. The law of obligations. The subjects of the fourth examination shall b,o :—!• International law ;■ 2. The law. of wrongs (civil and criminal); The law of procedure. Students who have passed in the compulsory subjects of examination for the degree °/ Bachelor of Arts at the end of their

second year may proceed to the degree of Bachelor of Laws by completing two additional years, and passing the second, third, and fourth examinations prescribed, viz., the second and third at the end of the first of such additional years, and the fourth at the end of the second of such additional years : Provided that any candidates who shall have attained the degree of 8.A., either after examination or ad etindem, shall be at liberty to pass the third and fourth examinations either together or in two separate years. The following provisions affecting teachers in affiliated institutions who are desirous of. proceeding to the B.A. degree is of great importance to the nongraduate portion of that most useful body of men the schoolmasters of New Zealand, and will, we have no doubt, bo availed of to a very large extent by those who are desirous of acquiring that status which a University degree is usually considered to confer on the holder: — “ Teachers in affiliated institutions and “ certificated teachers of good repute in “ any school established or conducted “ under the provisions of an Act of the “ General Assembly or of a Provincial “ Council of this colony, having been in “ the practice of their profession for at “ least five years, may bo admitted, on “ the recommendation of the Chancellor “ or of the Vice-Chancellor, to theexami- “ nation for the B.A. degree, to be passed either in one or two sections, on pay- “ merit of the ordinary fees, without “ matriculation and the keeping of the “ University terras ; and on passing that “ examination shall be entitled to all the “ other privileges of the undergraduates “ of the University of the same standing “anything in other regulations of the “ University notwithstanding : Provided “ that under this regulation no teacher 5 ‘ shall bo admitted to the first section of “ his examination beyond the B.A. “ examination before the year 1883.”