UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 206, 20 January 1913, Page 2

UNIVERSITY DEGREES.

! STATEMENT BY SIR R. STOUT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Saturday. | In his annual address to the Univer- } sity Senate this morning the Chancellor, Sir Robert Stout, referring to disturbances by students at capping ceremonies, mentioned particularly the lack of courtesy at the oratorial contest at Victoria College, and said that if capping ceremonies were to be continued, regulations should be passed penalising 1 students committing these breaches of decorum. Concerning the professorial ' conference the Chancellor said it did not seem fairly representative of the arts J faculty. He felt it his duty to bring before the Senate certain matters con- ' nected with the conference report. Tt ' was represented by some professors, who called themselves reformers, that the syllabus was archaic, but tjie changes suggested showed that the conference treated that criticism with contempt—in fact, the only change suggested was that mathematics should not be compulsory. A studenrmight get the B.A. degree for passing in such subjects as he"would have to pass in the B.Sc. only that three instead of four sciences were required. It was not stated what would become of the B.Sc. degree. It was not ) given on the present isyllabus. Tf the ' proposed B.A. syllabus was accepted, the student who got the M.Sc. degree would know less science than was required at present. The proposal was really a lowering of the science requirementis.