UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS.
Although there is much to be said in favour of encouraging New Zealanders to seek professorial appointments at our University, yet the importance of the position is so great that we ought to seek only to get the best talent available, irrespective of local or other considerations. Tlio.se from other centres cannot fail to bring something of a fresh outlook, and this is an important matter i" a community as isolated as ours, litness for the position cannot be judged solely on academic qualifications. -Something must be allowed for personality. Not having, the necessary information as to the qualifications of tl': 1 various candidates, it is impossible for 11 outsider to judge of their respective merits, but we may feel sure that every care was given in appraising their attainments. New Zealanders have often gained high academic appointments in'other lands, and this would not have, been the case if those lands had adopted the principle of giving preference to their own nationals. They have taken the beet talent available, and have not discriminr ated against us. Why, then, should we dis[criminato against them? GRADUATE*
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 284, 1 December 1933, Page 6
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