KNOWLEDGE OF GERMAN.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 15

KNOWLEDGE OF GERMAN.

HELP IN MEDICAL STUDIES. A claim that the study of the German language is practically essential in the case of medical students was urged on the Marlborough College Board of Governors at a meeting held this week by Mr J. J. W. White, who stated that he had received a letter from an old student of the college, at present pursuing his studies in London, to the effect that medical students there were under a great handicap in having no knowledge of the German language,, and urging him to impress on the Board the desirability of seeing that the study of the language was included in the course for the medical preliminary examination. Mr White stated that he had been informed by the writer of the letter that a former student of Marlborough College, Dr. Gordon Bell, had taught himself. Gorman so that he could follow up German investigations.in the medical profession, and the writer himself was now studying the language with the same object. Mr White concluded by suggesting that, in due course, tho Board should consider the matter, and should ask the Council of Education to consider, making German ..an., optional subject for the medical preliminary. Mr R. McCallum, who is a member of the Council of Education, said German was already an optional subject, but was not in favour at the present time. He believed that, of all the students at present in the University of New Zealand, only one was taking German. The Board took no action it tho matter.