EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 37, 3 February 1908, Page 4

EDUCATIONAL.

LMYKltol'Q SECKIvTAKIAN SCHULAJUISU'ti. . CONDEMNED 13 V THE CHIEF JUSTICE. Per Press Association. Wellington, Saturday. •Sir Uobcrt Stout, in a letter to the Times, refers to the action of the University Senate in accepting the U'Sulli* van bequest for a medical scholarship for Koman Catholics, lie declares that, if his suggest 011 had been accepted., the bequest would have been maintained for the benefit of Catholic students, but would not. have been a University scholarship. The Public Trustee would have k becn the trustee and the fund a private one. lie believes great injury may be [done to Catholics bv the University ac|eepting tlie ocquest. "l»y its total acceptance, the Universityhe says, "invites Protestants to make sectarian gifts, thai. is. to make it a condition of their benefactions that Catholics shail be excluded from participating in them." l» his opinion the University snould have so acteil as to have discouraged sectarian trusts and to have maintained the provisions of the Act that for no University scholarship should there be any religious examination or test. He believes the founding of the O'Sullivan University Scholarship is an injury to the University, a wrong to all religious bodies in the minority and the ereatiou of a precedent that must lead to heartburnings, animosities, and difficulties in the near future.

TARAXAKI SCHOLARSHIP CONDITIONS. Wellington, Saturday. At the University Senate to-day, the committee recommended tile insertion in the calendar of reflations relative to the Taranaki scholarships which provided that one or more scholarships, as funds admit, should be offered annually. The scholarships shall be awarded on results of the junior scholarship examinations or such examinations as the Senate directs, 110 scholarship to lie awarded unless credit in the examination is obtained. The scholarships arc to be open to all candidates who have resided and attended a school within the district for not less than two years, who are between the ages of sixteen and nineteen years, who have not yet matriculated, and wlio have not carried on their studies in any colleges. Not more than one scholarship may be awarded in any one year to any school. Each scholarship shall be tenable for three years, and be of the annual value jof £OO.. Any scholar may enter upon a course of study in medicine, engineering, mining, agriculture, or veterinary science, or some similar branch of applied science. The report was adopted.