EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 227, 19 January 1911, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

SENIOR FREE PLACES. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Wednesday. Following is the list of New Plymouth candidates who have qualified for senioi free places, pupil teachers, etc.: —Olive Ambury, Archibald Bacon, Marjorie Bollinger, Reginald Brokcnshire, Alice, Cocker, Gladys Doyle, ' Arnold Grant, Elsie Greatbach, David Lusk, Clyde M'Givcn, Laurie Mills, Clara Old, Harold Philpott, Colina Robertson, David Teed, Margaret Terry, Elma Wallach, Ivan Weston, Kathleen Winfield.

THE UNIVERSITY SENATE. Christchurch, Last Night. The University Senate met this afternoon. Sir Robert Stout, Chancellor, in his annual report, referred to the death of Mr. F. E. Baume, Professor Cook, and F. L. Gogson. He stated that the candidates for entrance examinations numbered 1396 in 1907, and 1834 in 1910. In the same period the candidates for degrees had increased from 017 to 1205. He referred at length to' the Victoria College movement for university reform, which he opposed on general and particular grounds, and expressed regret at the "campaign of depreciation" of the university in connection with the agitation.

CAPPING CEREMONY DOOMED. Christchurch, Last Night. Regarding the capping ceremony, the Chancellor, in his address, expressed himself in favor of the abandonment of the present ceremony. The expense of those ceremonies was considerable, and in some of the colleges the junior students resented any address on educational subjects, and he failed to see the necessity for continuing a ceremony that ceased to be oi any euucational value. Canterbury College, he continued, had made what he believed was a valuable suggestion regarding the establishing of a course for journalists. A carefully prepared memorandum by Professor Hight on a suggested syllabus was forwarded by the College, and he had no doubt the subject would receive due consideration by the Senate. A suggestion was made that a diploma of public health should be issued. That was done in several universities. There was no provision in the New Zealand statute or charters for the issue of diplomas. The University, however, could issue certificates, anil he presumed that they would have the same effect as diplomas. Reverting to the capping ceremonies, the Chancellor said that the last ceremony at Dunedin led to disgraceful conduct on the part of students, and he proposed to suspend the ceremony there for a year, unless the Senate otherwise decided.