PUBLIC LECTURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 3

PUBLIC LECTURES.

BY UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

FREE COURSES THIS YEAR?:

COLLEGE AND CIVIC LIFE.

A free course of lectures by professors of the Auckland University College is to be commenced this year. The tentative programme for 1928 and 1920 was approved at a meeting of the College Council yesterday afternoon. During the current year there will be three sets of lectures by three professors. The first set will be delivered by Professor Sperrin-Johnson, who will deal with bacteriology and micro-organisms. Professor Fitt will deliver the second set, which will deal with modern trends 171 . animal and child psychology. The third set will be given by Professor H. Belshaw, probably on "European Un- . "American the Golden" and Britain's Industrial Future."

It has been suggested that the 1929 series should be a symposium of Shakespearean lectures.

A letter was received from the Town Clerk advising that the City Council had \oted £250 a year for five years for lectures on public bodies administration and local government.

The chairman congratulated the Mayor and City Council on taking a wise step in the interests of the community. The arrangement of the courses would be left to the education committee and Professor Belshaw. "I think the lectures will be well worth while," said Mr. Fowlds. "Tliey will bring the college more definitely into touch with the civic life of Auckland."

Professor Belshaw would do the work, continued the chairman, and what would be involved would be the provision of some assistance in connection with his other work, and the building' up of a library. At present the college was ■without books on the subject, but there was a considerable and valuable literature obtainable. The lectures would commence next year, and before they started it was hoped to get some sections of the library completed. Mr. Wells doubted whether the public would come. If the course were to be for a single term only, it would be nothing more than a sketch.

The chairman said the same people would not attend the two courses which would be conducted in the one year.