UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 4

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

CAPPJ.VC CKIiK.MoXIES. TO JJI-; AllUUSHr'.l). - Dy Telegraph.—lYess AssociationDuncdin, January 2l). •The University Senate .spent a considerable lime this morning discussing' the horseplay of students ut capping ceremonies, and tlu> ipicslion of abolishing the present system of publicly conferring diaries. .Mr. von !last moved that henceforth defines be conferred at a meeting of the Senate.

lu tin ' ouvse of a long discussion, the conduct of students ivas viewed generally with great seriousness and it was mentioned as a fact known to senators that it had caused persons to Withhold gifts they had intended to give the University. It was also stated that students, by Mich conduct, which last year had been premeditated and prearranged, were bringing themselves and the ■;'niver.,ity into disrepute. Poilltw: ■.cf.Toiico was made to the Wellington .:. ,co, the Chancellor stating that llv .-.indents had, attended most iudeceutl : dressed.

Profe.-sor J. R. Ilrown said that if the Chancellor had exorcised a littlti patience, the meeting would have been comparatively <piiel. The Rev. Cameron counselled the Senate not to view the students' conduct too seriously. H was nothing compared wilb what be beard at Edinburgh when Lord Hosoberv gave a rectorial address. His Lordship didn't think he bad b i insulted. Duuedin, Last Night. The Chancellor said he did not view the matter from a personal standpoint. What he thought wrong was that students should organise beforehand." Unless they could show Unit university education tended to comUosi- in life, and order and discipline, Ihcv would hot get people to assist-the cause of education.

Jhoi.cv. Lvans moved an amendment to add tlio words: ■•Tlmt diplomas be tonvardcd to the registrars j„ Uie several colleges." This ,vas motived. Irofcssor IJcwitsun ni ()Vl .d lU i amend. meat: "That degrees 1, conferred at a meeting to be summoned for the purpose at the. four principal centres, tlig Senate being responsible for discipline." nils was also negatived, and Mr. von mast's motion was carried. j. QUESTION' ()K I'X AM I NATION'.' ' Tlic unction of Die appointment of an examining hoard came up at lli« meehng of ,he diversity Senate to. day, when Professor Hunter moved:that the present purely external »y». tall of examination for decrees in arts and science be abolished, ami, i„ „|, t . H tliercot. lucre he set up for each sit!,, jeetan examination hoard consisting „f the responsible teachers of that subject. 1.1 tnc four colleges; provided tlmt i.. any subject the Senate may appoint an >—ler from without the leaehinjf • ads of the collet, and such examiner halhayc the right of veto n, i„ the' In.vcwity of Wales." The m \f r pointed out that the whole of oducatio* opimou was against external examine «Hon. He referred to SU eh men a. iiofessors licame, Council, Dendv, and others, ;1 s its opponents, and he quoted the opouon of Mr. f, 11.-fl. (Ireemvood, ;'•„■' '' t '! lu « - i '>»'l tutor of Kmniannel College, ,'ambridgv. I'rofcssor J. It. Itrown -..conded ihe motion w 2 I CI, ; ,1, . ,,t,U " r «"'<l H'tt the point I» 'h bad been argued for year. „j, that no one could examine but tenehers, .and that argument, apparently, had now bee. abandoned, and thev Were to have an. Examination Hoard.' He did not ant (he cxa.mners io he i„ England, a* ■e pre cn-,,1 they should he in Yew Zcaand, if the best men could he obtained.!"'" > e hoped the time was coming when ■ , they won 1 not need to go to inland •t all but , t was absolutely essential to ol ten the host. men. He objected io a teacher passing his own pupils, li as the wrong «ys|e.n, and left room for the introduction of the personal «|e, ' men nder the proposed 'system the™ "oiild be three external examiner., to Po u I .he pnncple of obtaining the. y i.e., „„.„ !14 examiners, hut he ad'.t ed ~:„. ~,,,!,;, W|M PO'lj-n.,,:;»au,r than examination. H. - ; ('- -!_ inc. pressors by higher «1lie v- ,',', m f'"!■,'' " , ' , ' , "' il . v <> f tenure. »;-"•' :..-o ~,* to see,, t.er special. j^ij;: 1 !;;^;r , " jc "" "■»<»««