THE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND AUCKLAND SCHOLARSHIPS.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 747, 31 March 1877, Page 2

THE UNIVERSITY SENATE AND AUCKL AND SCHOLARSHIPS.

A late telegram from Nelson, respecting the mejtiug (here of the fcsnate of the Ne\y University, states ;— "The examination schedule has boon atyerer£ and that Australian examiners are. to be appointed for the ensuing examination. Three Auckland studeuts, and no others, passed under the new regulations; Mjea Kate Edger and Mr Reid, of Auokland, awarded senior scholarships. Miss Edger to whom the degree of A.B. has been awarded is to have the degree publicly conferred m Auckland." The' folWnS lettei- addressed' to 'Miss Edger by *the Secretary of the University, will explain some of the difficulties and misconcep. tions which stood m her way, and prevented her from securing, two years ago, University of Ne* ZealaLd, Nelson,

Mtf&r 8,~T877i^ Madalri^l'hafrtße^ honour, by direction of the„Chauoellor, to aoknow'ertge^hy i-eceipbOf 1 your letter of tbe loth ultimo. The Chancellor, regrets tliab 1 thero should Ifcve bcourreda misconception regarding tbe tenure 5 of your scholarship of 1874 You were informe I last year that a resolution had bean 'passe I by -the \ senate to the effeat thatsoholara of 1874 wh0 gained m 1875 half marks iv the subjects m which they had gained their scholarships should be entitled ( . to, retain those ...scholarships." • Yon were also informed that you had 'not so gained Inl f marks .ia mathematics, • ancV that in 1 'obrisefquenoe you ha'chlost your scholarship. It appears now tbat m computing' the' marks allotted to you m this subject, for the purpose of giving effeot to tbe rebolub'ion'of the Senate, the fact was lost sight. of that the examiner on whose report youf position under that resolution 'depe 1 tided had' taken ! as bis maximum not .1000 marks bub 600. By computing, therefore, • apparently your marks m reference to a maximum of 1000 the proportion gained ( by you was made much smaller than was aotually. the case. I have, therefore, thubh pileaWre m informing yqu that under the resolution of the SenatVab'ovementioned, you ire entitled'to retain 1 youi* scholarship of 1874, and I will, at an early date, transmit to yon 'the sum due on acoouht thereof. — I h»vp the honour Ito be,; your obedient, servant, W. M. Maskbll, Registrar. Miss Kate, <Milligan Edger, now; aged .., twepty,, is the third daughter of, the, Rev Mr Edger, of Auckland, and is the most accomplished scholar, who has studied at the Auokland College and Grammar Sohool. Miss^rEdger'sj-'examination m Deoember 'was the -.highest attained, and reaohed-nearly^e *very highest possible ,-marks, Ajl^honoar .to the .young lady j^student'who haY aohieved the first legiate position ever attained by her sex. lit tile annals'" 1 of v Scholarship m Great,.' Britain and her dependencies.