UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 39, 29 January 1912, Page 5

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

SATURDAY’S SITTING

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Wellington, January 28. At yesterday’s sitting of the University Senate, Dr. Hughes moved, “That a candidate for the degree of Doctor of Literature, or Doctor of Science, or Dr. of Laws, be required to publish his thesis of dissertation before it is accepted by the university, that the published thesis or dissertation be first submitted to the teachers of the subject concerned in affiliated colleges, and, except upon she receipt of an unfavourable report from the Senate, shall submit the work to an examiner who is a specialist in the subject of the thesis.” The motion, which was seconded and supported .by Mr. G. Hogfien, was carried without dissent, and referred to the statutes committee. The joint medical and finance committees, asked by the Senate to consider the rates of remuneration for examination, reported that no change is at present advisable. The report was adopted. , Further consideration of the report of the recess committee on engineering and architecture was given by the Senate. Professor J. R. Scott (Canterbury College), in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his belief that this revised programme would prevent the establishment of inferior schools, of engineering in other parts of the Dominion. This must inevitably result in the lowering of the standard and influence not for the good of the Canterbury school. There was room for only one such institution in New Zealand.—The motion was seconded by %Mr. G. Hogben. W The several clauses of the report ere taken seriatim and adopted. The report was referred to the statutes committee. A travelling scholarship was awarded to Thaddeus Julian.