OUR UNIVERSITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 217, 13 March 1914, Page 5

OUR UNIVERSITIES.

PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS. By Toli-graph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. At a public meeting of citizens, a committee was set up to investigate and report upon the proposal to establish a medical school in connection with the Auckland University. The same meeting carried resolutions (a) urging the Government to select a site .for a *ew University, and to erect upon it a building worthy of Auckland; (b) asking the University Senate to officially recognise any efficient course of specialised instruction given at the Auckland University College leading to any degree; (c) asking the Government to provide bursaries for students wishing to attend special schools outside their own districts. DUXEDLV MEDICAL COLLEGE. Dunedin, Lust Night. The campaign undertaken with the object of erecting a medical block in connection with tile Medical School of the Otago Universitv has resulted in £4023 3s being donated up to the present, out of a total required of £7. r >oo. Donations include £2OOO by an anonymous donor, £750 by the Dunedin Savings Bank Trustees, £750 by the medical faculty, and £1123 3s collected by the Otago Daily Times.