The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 41

The University

The University.

A new organization of the University made necessary by the establishment of high schools, and desirable on its own account	110
The University council has co-operated in preparing a scheme of reform	111
Change of constitution, more practical teaching, abolition of fees, admission of women	111
Complicated character of the actual government of the University	111
Council to be reinforced by nominees and professional members	111
Practical working of the proposed changes	112
The senate to have the power of amending	112
Present faculty of Arts	112
Disadvantages of the present system	113
Position of classical lecturers	113
Chair of English and other European languages	113
Lecturers in French, German, &c.	113
History	114
Political economy	114
Residence of professors	114
Costs of proposed additions to the faculty of Arts	114
Faculty of Law	115
Cost of proposed addition to the faculty of Law	115
Faculty of Medicine	115
Heavy cost of a medical education in Melbourne	115
Comparison of the medical staff proposed with that maintained in other countries	116
Separation of anatomy, physiology, and pathology	117
New lectureships	117
Lectures on hygiene	118
The Melbourne Hospital	118
Cost of proposed additions to the faculty of Medicine	118
Faculty of Engineering and Practical Science	118
Proposed additions to the engineering staff	118
Comparison with other countries	119
The State may encourage this faculty by giving its degrees professional value	119
Mr. Arnold's evidence about engineering	119
Mr. Krenot's evidence about engineering	120
Disadvantage even to the greatest men of imperfect training	121
Agricultural science	121
Proposed staff for teaching agriculture	122
One man cannot teach agriculture	122
The dignity of a science depends on its thoroughness	123
Degrees, associateships, and certificates required to mark different educational values	123
Navigation, nautical astronomy, and naval architecture	123
Technology	123
Importance of technological teaching	124
Cost of the faculty of Engineering and Practical Science	124
Professorship of music	124
Paid examiners outside the teaching staff	124
Cost of examiners	125
Additional expenses of clerical staff, fittings and apparatus	125
Abolition of fees not communistic (stated more temperately)	126
Every undergraduate is a State pensioner at present	126
The trades' union objection to an increased supply of labour unsound	127
The payment of fees is the heaviest burden on students	127
The examination test will keep out incompetent students	127
Ratio of students to population in some typical countries	128
Justification of fees for examinations, &c.	128
Fees for degrees	129page viii
Charge for experiments	129
Modifications of the restrictions on residence	129
Admission of women to University teaching and honours	129
Women are now admitted in several universities	130
It is proposed to admit them at Melbourne under restrictions	130
Arts, music, and medicine are the subjects in which ladies are most likely to qualify	130
The admission to lectures in Arts will cause no difficulty	130
Provision is already made for teaching first year female students in the Medical faculty	131
Further provision may be made when the occasion arises	131
The houses now used by three of the professors will supply lecture-rooms and club-rooms for the students	132
An engineer's workshop required	132
Three affiliated colleges will soon be built	132
The State ought to resume ten acres now enclosed in the University ground	133
Cost of making the University efficient	133
Comparison of the revenues of various important universities	133
Cost of professors and lecturers	134
Graduated incomes	134
University teaching is not objected to as irreligious	135

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