STUDENTS' ROWDYISM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 116, 16 May 1906, Page 4

STUDENTS' ROWDYISM.

In the interesting interview with a representative, of thjs .journal,, published yesterday, Mr j. A>-Tole raildlyVreV l ferred to the disturbances ert&tea *?' Melbourne students diirjng: Sir 'Kpbert Stdut '? speech at the jubilee celebration of Melbourne University.---Eg. ports in the Vietorlaariiewspapers show that these interruptions were of a particularly dJßgraeeful cha»<cter>' Therja. is also evidence that jani -organised outburst of -hooliganieiift-—was specially:: directed;against- ef .the. New Zealand University because of the * x ™.-?. tan he hae taken .against unseemly diSturbances-at- cappiiig ceremonies in New Zealand." Th* and Professor Spencer,...iivßo; preceded"toe New Zealand "Ch'apcelloi,.-were-ac-corded;-a MBst /attentive *nd respectful hearing, but immediately Sir-. Robert Stout rose lie was' interrupted by, insistent shouts, for./ Tommy," alias-Mr Beat,-Premier of yictpria. 'This 'man," they bawled,- "may .be ■■: -but Tommy ie much. > jin sexhiMtipn of wit several degrees below. .Vhe Rapacity of . the.... average- - : XiOiidon husdrjyer.- \tsy-. •**y-. that Melbourne ; University ". - w4s ■ known in Zea|andj■'-. .his voice became., drowned^:'in,.the shouts for. "stout .aid -voysters." i A conception of the scene may' bejjbbtainea from the following report which appeared in the Melbourne "Argus?*:;— J : Sir' Robert Stout (whttcouM .hixdly be heard) went on tos'neaTc of Becohdary: education. ' ' '"' ' "■ ■- '""" ■' ' . Students: Tommy! Tommy! Toinniy is our only joy! = ' Sir Robert Stotttt.lt'* connection with the University—— • "'-'■ Students: OwyYowl HSoray! Sir to -the.: students. "I want," he said, ?to -say■■•*?■ Hew words to lyou."'.. I "-• IC'::.T.ZZ ' il ; ' The Students: Hooray! Sir Robert Stout:. You. have heard of the pioneers, of the. past, but you are the pioneers of the future.. The words of Walt Whitman are applicable to you. A Student: Sure, they are.— i •'(Laughter.) •The Other Students: Bboray! Sir Robert Stoetf The -future of "Victoria depends-on you. * ' * The'BtuaenteiHooTiy! - i ■■■' "■'''■ ' ■ One; Student: Aid oe"Te&nry ißeht^^ j Bit Stetrt-t-'3f :fovx 'iUnJwsrsitj % cerries " Taut : Hs ; if unctions "jofopefry, ? ■will ? hißt*ttct you in -the "wbtK of 'ievery branch" Bf Ufe. -„': r - Hallelujali!'' ' ' - . = . efforts to "thefe Bh6uld" W - ..je^ucat^Dii;

Tinftj, were made almost inaudible bj the din, while an incautious reference to

the words of Walt; Whitman "as the a ityaajH&Z^ \ii<m^&^i»ovX, .-a/. pandemonium in which the deafening* sound of tin trumpets -wag the preThis occasion,- it-must be remembered," "was jiot an ordinary capping, ceremonj-, bat a jubilee presentation 61 degrees to, •which. Sir Robert Stout, as Chancellor ~oi the-.New Zealand Unitersity, had been., officially invited.' Such in" exhibition of ■ bufl'oonery and. bad manners -^directed, against a distinguished gß«rt inflects ■ rather" iadly "uponT tlie efficacjp" of Uni- ; Vc'rsiiy~trainlhg inculca]t-1 ■ing primary 'principles-'©t gentlemanly conduct, i. : Wfe. hisexperieneeS injtfelbournetvill slrengthen. -£h"e /Qiance]ior;&. detexminatiqn to eu(:iorce «, loft|er. standard- icondnct 'in" connecfaon \vifli eSitcatxon in ,this colony v J ,: , Ci'«'"^.i.'lC , :J^S.- : -; ?*'■'''