THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 245, 16 April 1912, Page 8

THE UNIVERSITY SENATE.

DEGREES AND DECREE SUBJECTS.

By Telegraph—Press Association. WelliiyUu, April 13,

The University Senate met on Saturday morning to consider the risuits of the recent degree examinations and other matters. There were present: Sir Robert Stout (Chancellor), Professor J. YV. Brown, Mr. .). VV. Ti'bbs, Professor J. R. Brown, Professor Hight, Mr. 0. liogfben, Hon. Dr. Collins, Professor E. J. Scott and Mr. L. Cohen. The Senate decided that the exhibition science scholarship be awarded to Theodore Rigg, of Victoria College, and 1 it was decided to ask the Commissioners j to award a scholarship to Percy William Burbridge. Reports were received from Messrs H. A. Thomson and F. L. Peck, outlining a scheme for a conscrvatorium of music. It was decided to forward copies of the reports to the Auckland University Col- ! lege.

The provision that candidates for the B.A. and L.L.B. degrees must have passed in Latin as for matriculation, was interpreted to mean that the condition only applied to those candidates who have passed matriculation subsequent to the examination of 1010.

The degree of Bachelor of Medicine of Glasgow .University was accepted as a student having kept one year's terms for the degree of (Bachelor of Arts. Candidates who have not completed their engineering preliminary examination may do so at the end of their first academic vear.

The marks in history for an entrance : scholarship, which were fixed at 000 at the recent annual meeting of the Senate,, were reduced to 376 for this year only. , The books in history for the B.A.' degree for 1013 were prescribed as follows: "Conduct of the Allies" and "Free Thoughts on the Present State of Affairs," .Steele's ''Crisis," Bolingbrooke's "State of Parties at the Accession of George 1.," Hume's Essays (Ron Hedge's Universal Library edition), part 1, Nos. 2, 9 and 12, part 2, Nos. 7, 12 and 'l6, and the "Additional Essays," No. 3. The following examiners were appointed:—Latin (for matriculation), Professor Dettmann; zoology (for matriculation), Professor PI. B. Kirk; history (for entrance scholarship), Professor Hight; book-keeping (for agriculture), Mr. A. T. Clarke, A.C.A.; veterinary surgery (for agriculture), Mr. C. J. Reakes, M.R'.G.V.S. The Hoben prize was not awarded, no candidate's essay being up to the standard.

The amended courses in history for the , B.A. degree and senior scholarship will come into force in 1013. The following degrees were confirmed: Bachelor of Engineering (electrical), William Leonard Parker; Bachelors of Arts, Agnes Gertrude Stonehaven Merton. The free passages offered by the Orient Steamship Company annually were I awarded, one to Plulip Sydney Bridson and the other divided between Theodore Rigg and Percy William Burbridge. The engineering travelling scholarship was awarded to .Frederick Noel Hamilton Beamish, of Canterbury College. A graduate (iM.A.)' admitted ad cundem was given permission to proceed to the degree of Doctor of Literature. It was decided that candidates who ,have passed in all subjects except one I or two of the first division subjects of I the L.L.B. degree- must take three sub-' jects to complete. Certificates of proficiency in the "BA standard were awarded to the following-" Gladys Astley, in education; Agnes Baird, in history and constitutional history; Walter Balham, in French- Alice Bartlett, in history and constitutional history and mental science; Isabel Best m botany and mental science; Wither Bigg, in education; James Brown, in his- i tory and constitutional history and edu«r,vn; William Brown > in education; . William Burns, in mental science and (education; Ormond Burton, in educa-f tion; George Ooekroft, Jn mental science; William Cox, in economics, mental science and education; Thomas Cresswell MA in military science; Frank Curd, in pure mathematics and education; Horace Fawcett in education; Elizabeth Gawn, in mental science; Alfred Gray, i„ history and constitutional history; Doris Haegett, ,„ Ehglish and education; William tta-U, in pure mathematics; Gilbert Haines, m education; Arthur Hannah, in economics; Robert Harrison, in economies and education; Rupert Harrison, in economics; Florence Hind, in English mental science and education; Ruth 7h^° n 'tV 1 economies education; Abraham Honore, in education; William tnVv wf'° rj . Md constitutional <history; William Kay, in economics; Maron Keys, ,n Latin; Sidney Lorking m education; Janet Mackenzie, in mental Sdence and education; MonsteS ■ m botany and education; Frederick Moore, m Latin; Rupert Moore, in ht tory and constitutional history and education; Francis Murphy, in .history and m>ck, in Latin, English, mental science Eii:i dl, \ a f 0n; Th ° mi,s n English; Margaret McKimion, in econo mics; Arnold Parkinson, i„ English and education; John RoberU, in French Ernest Rowtree, in chemistry" AZm Sissons, ,n education and bote ny" Zcy Skinner, in pure matneinatic y> ™ Smith, m mental science and education ■ James ? in E GeJrge st£ in Lnglish economics and education- An drew Sullivan, in mental science an I ed - cation; Ernest Williamson, h p „ e