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Paragraph 89 of the University (1937)

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Committee's report referred to conditions on which study

leave had been given. This matter was dealt with

separately at a Council meeting held on February 11th

1938 when short rules governing the grant of study leave

were approved.

15.

Two related matters arising out of the report

were considered and the judgments of the Council and the

Court are contained in resolutions XXIV and XXVI. In the

first it was resolved that it was unnecessary to attempt

a definition of the powers of the Vice-Chancellor, in the

second, that it was unnecessary to restrict the freedom

of the Senate to discuss matters touching the interest

of the University. These resolutions arose out of

comments in the report on the state of discipline in the

University. Another resolution arising out of the same

series of considerations is in resolution XXVII which

lays down the constitution of the committee that

hereafter will deal with complaints of breaches of

discipline levelled at senior members of the University

staff. The purpose of this resolution was to change a

procedure whereby, at present, disciplinary charges can

be discussed in a mixed assembly, the Court, consisting

of nearly seventy members.

16.

Attention may perhaps be called to

resolution XVIII. This arises in part from a belief

accepted by the Council and the Court that hitherto the

University has tended excessively to stress the practical

and technological quality of its course and has failed

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