N.Z. UNIVERSITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4614, 6 January 1894, Page 2

N.Z. UNIVERSITIES.

i (By Telegraph.-Press Association). OnnisiOHOßon, January 5, , At tho : meeting of the Court of J Convocation of theN.Z, University at i the Canterbury' College, Dr Chilton, 1 who occupied tho chair, referred in i the course of his report to the losses | of the Auckland University College, : which had already been singularly ' unfortunate with her professors, Professor Pond was out off by disease when his life's work of usefulness had | just begun, and Professor Aldis was forced to sever his connection with the College, owing to a ohain of oiroumstauces which all could regret, without expressing any opinion as to the merits of tho dispute, During the year considerable attention had been attracted to the Medioal Sohool at Dunedin, much of it arising from a most unfortunate inoident in connection with the professorial examina- ' {ions of November 1892, After \ looking into tho whole matter with ' great care, he thought the importance ' of it had been much magnified, and that there was nothing in the 1 inoident itself to make them distrustful of tho meriUof the MedU \ oal Sohool. They could draw C .1 t-m , .. ■ . . >

from the difficulty, the lesson that ' the method of employing English ' examiners wherever possible" must be ' strenuously adhered to, He referred ' to the proposed eatablisbment of a College at Wellington as a work that the convocation should support, and l said be would like to see the teaching J of the colleges much more widely ex- \ tended by means of lectures, because ? there were many, persons in the ' country who were,anxious to gain the benefits of. University/train- . ing, but under existing conditions woro unable to do; so, .»'. " ' F