W.E.A. ACTIVITIES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18346, 1 April 1925, Page 5

W.E.A. ACTIVITIES.

The Psychology- Class, under Professor Shellcv; will assemble for the first lime this session to-morrow evening. At Waimate, Mr 11. G. Miller, the permanent W.E.A. tutor in South Canterbury, has formed a class to study "The Foundations of Modern England." It has attract ed an attendance of over fifty. The class in Timaru, which is studying the same subject, has also attracted a large attendance, and much interest is being shown. In a letter received- by Mr Manning from Mr D. Stewart, general secretary of the New South Wales W.E.A., the writer 6tates: "Wo have not been ,ablc to get the /•numbers you have been able to secure at our summer schools. ■ I think you are ex.: tremely fortunate in having a man like Professor Shelley taking such an interest in the school. A good director of educational activities—one who enters into tho social life —is a great- asset." An attempt will be made this morning to form a W.K.A. shift class in general economics amongst tfamwaymeu; the class will bo continued in the evening for the men on the morning shift. It will be conducted by Mr Manning Mr H. "Priestley Wicks, who is to give the first of this year's series of popular W.E.\. lectures on Saturday evening, has been for a number 'of years a Seventh Dav Adventist Medical Missionary working in the Solomon Islands. He lies' collected a large number of valuablo and interesting slides, and these will be used to illustrate his address on "The llabit3 and Customs of the Solomon Islanders." The lecture will bo free to tho public. There was, a good increase in attendance of students and visitors at Br. Milliaan'3 class last week. The tutor showed reasons for regarding tho human body as a fuelburning engine of highly complicated pattern, and said that it may be considered as a temnorarv building wherein matter is attempting to evolve to a. sti'l mo'e complicated state. Ho showed how the individual life was a process of inflation, whic 1 commences with a marked increase at fertilisation and continues throughout life, becoming increasingly difficult at old age.