UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7722, 26 January 1905, Page 2

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

OI'EXINt; APUKESS HY TIJE L'iIANCELLOIi. (Per I'ress Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 25. Ihe Chancellor (Sir a. M. O'iiorke), in his opening speech at the University Senate, referred to the ecclesiastical agitation to change the basis of thv primary system of education. lie said if il, were given elVect to It, must affect the University, perhaps end it as a secular institution IJu concluded : "All „f would deeply regret (o see introduced into the University any subject which Would cause discord in tho management and lead to sectarian control of lis work." The Chancellor expressed regret that none of the colleges had been able to appoint a professor. Indication, even with the additional grants to colleges, would still be hampered, Auckland and Wellington both being poorly endowed, lieferring to technical education he said care should be taken not to , fUvprce jt from Ibn practical, mining and agricultural industries on which j the colony mainly relies. ■l* or many years we shall be mainly concerned in the production of raw ma teria I." The selection of the lihodes scholar lor 1905 will be made on February 27th.