UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3125, 23 January 1911, Page 3

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

TIIE QUESTION OF MARKS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 21. The University Senate this morning referred to the Scholarships Committee a letter from the Habeas Memorial Committee, offering £lO5 for a prize of £lO to be offered every cwo years for an essay open to students of training colleges who are matriculated students of not more than three years’ standing. A motion by Professor F. D. Brown that the regulation regarding mechanics for matriculation and junior scholarships be revised was carried, and the matter was referred to a special committee. T], c Recess Marking Committee recommended that the marks for a pass should not be lowered in any subject below a defined minimum, but that compensation might be offered' for comparative weakness in single subjects; that in matriculation the statute miximum in the Maori language, history, geography, music and drawing be 100; other subjects 200; that every candidate be required to piss in English, elementary mathematics, Latin or Greek or French or German, and except for a candidate who passes in Latin.- or Greek, one of sciences be conipuisory ; that the aggregate of two marks.be required for a pass, and that no candidate may sit for more than seven subjects. In regard to the marking of qualification papers, it was recommended that the marks assigned by examiners should be averaged, that average be treated as 50 per cent, of the maximum, and that tiie marks assigned should be adjusted accordingly. The debate was adjourned till Monday.