VICTORIA COLLEGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 16, 25 June 1909, Page 3

VICTORIA COLLEGE.

CAPPING CEREUOXY.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Hon. C. C. liowcn, Vice-Chancellor at' lie University Semite of A'ew Zealand, resided at the Victoria Coliege t.i ■ uug ceivnony this afternoon. Tli'e oncert chamber of the Town Hali ,va» rowded. The lion, lioiven remarked liac this was the centenary of the birth f Darwin, and the liftieth anniversary f the publication of "The Origin of pecies." Mr. J. W. Joyut, Kegistrar f the College, read apologies from the Wtorney-General, Minister of Educalon, and Dr. Anderson (Education Department). He said the number of I.A. degrees to be conferred (17) was record for any college of the New Zeaand University. The degree of Master t Laws would be conferred on one stuent. Twelve had qualified for the 13 \ egree. The College had also won foar tenidr scholarships connected with tile bachelors' degree. An 'ex-student of the -Ollcge had also won the prize for modern languages presented by the .oadou representative of the Univer. ■ty of X w Zealand, and had annexed he Rhodes Schoiarsmu for liJOl) lirough Allan MacDougall, M.A. DeTees were then conferred as follows Masters of Arts - Frauds William itamslans', Bartley Alexander, Buriii-t Jiarters, Amy Elizabeth Currie (thirdlass honors in Latin and Germany), -eanarj Frederick De Bern-, Arthur 'enjamin Fitt (.second-class "honors in nental science), .Margaret Elizabeth ■ibbs (third-class honors in mental cience), Charles Thomas' Graham,Katheen May Hewtson (third-class honors n Latin and German), Edith Miriam lind (second-class honors in Latin and French), Janies Hutton (third-class honira in political science), Elizabeth StewMorrison (third-class honors in -atin and French), Bernard Edward ilurphy (first-class honors in meiital icienee), Florence Ncilson (third-class lonors in English and German), Mathew Henry Oram (second-class honors n mathematics and mathematical phylcs), John Wallace Boss (first-class lonors m Latin and Greek), Frederick icorge Albert Stuckey (third-class hon'rs m natural science and zoology) Master of Laws —William °Hendry Vilson, B.A. (first-class honors in interlational law, contract and tort, and ompany law). Bachelors' of Arts-Basil Davey Ashroft, Thomas Andrew Gilbert, Wm atterson, Pollock Gordon, Florence fcuuTHunt (of Canterbury College), na Gwendoline Hylton, • Catherine amiesou, Elsie Millicent Johnston Bo>ert Kennedy, Euphemia Ethel Law, farold Wyatt Monaghan, Isabella Neilon Clare, Constance Herberg Eoekel, iuthfoert Hargreaves Taylor. ' Bachelors of Science—Mary' Eushtoit Sarkas and Benjamin Harris Low B A Bachelors of Laws-Clarence Adoltas Arthur and Herbert Edgar Evans, 1-A. (conferred in April). Distinction—The following distinc10ns were also obtained: Senior scholrs, Mary Bushton Barkas, in German; homas Andrew Gilbert, in Latin; Elsie Mlicent Johnstone, in French; Robert .ennedy, in economics. Mr. Eve's prize in French and German -Bernard Joseph Gondringer; Rhodes wholarship, Allan MacDougall. Professor Picken said perhaps their nost fundamental need was a growth >f public appreciation of services rendered by the University to the aation. Jniversities were nurseries' of national deas, and the future of a ration defended on the maintenance in universities of a high moral and spiritual levl Examinations and degrees were be»inping to be looked on as of much" more importance than they really were, and were liable to be mis-used. Many of the professors believed the only solution of the present problems of the University was the establishment of independent universities in each of the four centres. Such independence had been foreshadowed by the Chancellor, bir Robert Stout, in a recent officia pronouncement. Whether this were near or far must depend on the abilitv of the provinces to provide for their universities by adequate endowments from private benefactions. This was the national spirit that .was wanted. Mr. Thompson vice-president of the Students' AsJsodiatiOn, presented M" MacDougall, the Rhodes scholar, with'a purse of sovereigns on behalf of the I students. •

The proceedings throughout were characterised by the usual hilarity the speakers being subjected to considerable interruptions of a more or less humorous nature.