UNIVERSITY SENATE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8341, 30 January 1913, Page 11

UNIVERSITY SENATE

NEXT ANNUAL MEETING IN DUNEDIN. Press Association.

AUCKLAND, January 29. The annual session of the Senate of the University of New Zealand was continued to-day. It was resolved that a special meeting of tho senate should bo held m . \\ eiliugton a fortnight after the receipt ot the reports from tho English examiners with power to award degrees, honours and scholarships for the 1912 examination, and tho next annual meeting of the senate was fixed to bo held in Dunedin on January 17th. 1911. A lengthy report was presented by tho medical committee. It approved the report fudnished by Mr Vv. I’. Johnston, uolder of a medical travelling scholarship. The recommendations ot the faculties of medicine and dentistry regarding tho examinations in dental surgery were approved, except tho proposal by the dental faculty that compensation should be allowed to candidates who had shown excellence in one subject but had done indifferently in one other subject. It also approved the resolution of the medical faculty regarding candidates who. failed at the final professional examinations in not more than two subjects, and adopted recommendations of tho dental faculty in regard to intermediate examination tor M-B. and B.D.’a degree. The senate having affirmed tho principle that permission should be obtained lor students to attend at four city hospitals for clinical practice tho committee suggested that the medical faculty should be requested to suggest a scheme for carrying out the proposal. The science committee reported that its opinion regarding tho choice of subjects for State research scholarships is already Vufficieutly wide. It made no recommendation regarding the annual value of those scholarships. Tho committee proposed that university scholarships should bo established for the encouragement of research, these scholarships to be held by graduates only, and recommended that the committee should draw up a scheme for reward and the tenure of the suggested scholarships for next session. The report was adopted. Upon the report by the music committee it was decided that the matter of a conservatorium of music should bo left in tho hands of the council of Auckland University College, and that the senate should take no further action until the whole scheme is submitted for its approval by the college council. It was agreed that the recess committee should, if necessary, confer with the college councils. The senate decided that ten junior scholarships should be awarded in the December examination of 191 S. Dr J. C. Bradshaw, musical director of Christchurch, was appointed examiner in history of music. The following graduates into degrees obtained outside New Zealand were admitted to the University of New Zealand : Olaf E. Stout, Wellington; Henry W. Mayo, Gisborne; Graham H. Balfour, Dunedin; Prances C. Kilroe and C. W. Kilroe, Wellington; Ambrose, T. Griffith, Poilding; and James Holt, Timaru.