College Exhibit At Show To Be Discontinued

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30115, 26 April 1963, Page 18

College Exhibit At Show To Be Discontinued

Lincoln College should be spending more time at secondary schools showing senior pupils that an agriculture degree was of considerable importance, and dispelling the impression that agriculture was not a top-level science. Professor B. P. Philpott said to the Lincoln College council.

He and Professor A. E. Henderson were a deputation explaining to the council why the college’s professorial board wanted to discontinue the annual college exhibit at the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Association’s show.

Professor Philpott said the £274 which it cost to mount the exhibit last year (plus 30 to 40 man-days in staff time) would be better spent on the travelling expenses fund, which was already dangerously low.

Mr T. D. J. Holderness, the chairman of the council, said the council was somewhat reluctant to drop something which had spent a long and useful life to retain the good-

will of the community. He said be believed the goodwill of the urban community was important to the college. Professor Henderson said that the professorial board would not object if it were convinced that the exhibit was a means of attracting students to the college, but it was not convinced. The council decided to adopt the board’s recommendations and discontinue the exhibit at the agricultural and pastoral show.