UNIVERSITY TEMPERATURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 189, 12 August 1933, Page 8

UNIVERSITY TEMPERATURES.

I attended 'an interesting lecture in the University the other evening by Professor Segar on "The Expanding Universe." To concentrate in a freezing atmosphere on algebraical formulae proving the accuracy of data is rather too severe a test for a layman. Granted the necessity for thrift, surely a little expenditure in raising the lecture room temperature would have been well spent. Scientists tell us that the brain only acts up to certain vibrations at a certain temperature. Visitors to New Zealand repeatedly -complain of the lack of heating apparatus in our public buildings. I admit that too high a temperature will also combat the reflective faculties. But there lis a happy medium. I trust the authorities will take this hint. Incidentally, the paucity of attendance at last Wednesday's lecture i* poor encouragement to professors who gi ve their time and services gratuitously. HERBERT MULVIHILL.