MEN OF FEW WORDS

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27035, 9 May 1953, Page 6

MEN OF FEW WORDS

(By WHIM yVHAMI “I would put Latin back as a compulsory subject for entrance to the University.”—Dr. G. A. Currie, ViceChancellor of the University of New Zealand. Reckon I don’t share Dr. Currie’s Wurries About or re Latin, There’s Enough in the Syllabus already, why put That in? What can you do With Latin anyway, you Can’t eat It or drink it or sell it or milk it or skin it Or put it on a Horse there’s obviously no Future in it. It won’t GET you anywhere, wherever That is, I suppose he thinks he’s clever, Country’s not good enough for him I suppose, Well I reckon we can get by without any of Those Foreign Languages, dead OR alive —Listen you Jokers I’ve Been thinking about this Lot —What Ever do we want to learn English for either? Jokers can earn Good Money without it, Best Bets Gets On without it, I know Jokers making a H*ll of a Lot of Dough Without it, some Jokers get elected Tq Parliament without it, some highly respected Pig Island Authors have managed for Years quite Nicely without it. All right Then, why waste All this Time and Taxes on A dead Language and one with one Foot in the Grave? Why not save A bit for the Week-ends? Dividends Talk and it isn’t Latin, don’t you

worry. No nor English neither, Dr. ViceChancellor Corry.