UNIVERSITY REFORM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 734, 5 February 1910, Page 13

UNIVERSITY REFORM.

: ''-';-?--^^^.-.^^-'^'''^^- ; 'J<>» ; 'ter-your v rei ; i-iPW'.to iny;query ;;'.:I.do--not :'quite see'the :,'t: introducing.; .Von :.;'.;; Zedlitzfo name/into ryb'ar .-answer, "-though,' ;4'.f;o|;;cpuTO,;. the-object; is 'patent.' enough: : ■.; j He,/hoTrever; will .no/doubt speak: for Mm-, ';,';.■«. X':.have; to'the ////lest/of jmy/abUityr-ft::./: ;//,,>:'/>;;:;:/.: ' ■iy'.'^OJ^^efhave^n-iio-adeqtt ; ; 'A«k;Pnt;ibryard;by 'the "reformers"—the '/v/saief ,;.Teasba;-;K.v,;'-A;;-. •• w. v ;; ; v- _v;. ;;■.;::•; "The is} full -of //./danger.to,/the soul 'of ;:'tl»:'university*—; ';,'';•' the /strongest 'consideration/ Kr/vWvi.-t'i; .'based- "oh'the-assumption //■; ! -for 'same-' '.-:?, aing mewT-rsome; experimental; legislation;. ;.?. :; ,On; the' contrary; /all /.they; desire;-is that' } v : <*™j experience /of^'btherr/uhiversi'ties,''but -.: v Bhonld:, profit jbyXtheir? experience, "like •;-y ; J ls ? ! ; me ,n;iirather i than-blunder/on- ahd ; ■;;.!«:■ nave to; profit, only iby .our own; like fools." ..-vv.-Xou require, that.''you'should know/where i'/;:the"vroad.'leads /before: agreeiiig;;tbVniove •;! r pte,.corner.if;ihat.-has;to/be;done'f/:Wise V peoplbv.-tnrn/'/corhers'.evbryy day,' not" be- •£ / cause .they/have, done so -before, and than : ;.-..know;,/.where'-;th'o.;road leads,: but because i.V-/'-otherV^Jle';'hav*-.'don6.;M.--.'with:';'aaTaii- ;;/;;;;:: - ;■,.,;■; .■/i;: ;: )!:b'uf-'a- .; f. ehelter' behind which to/ hide; <\ .The'' query vy/'-'.to,..be:/answered is.yWhy./is'.'the time; not we;havei tbcon- ;:. •, '■; tinue -a, system./in. 'New Zealand: that no 1 ' : :;:';iother,;nniversity.-adopts? : -What/are-our '/ '•; /very .'peculiar-."conditions ?. J This question; .v.- [it I ', seems /-to;;' hie; ; /remains: to 'be -; - answered;—l.',emi' ietp'., / :w;i : \ ?;."..•-.;■'; ! •'; ■•■/ ■v-yV ; i--"v^'--:--:.;S:WT;"' ;...;*;; /February/; 1,?1909/;.-.;;-. h•;:■;■ ';'..;.'£ ' : f.(yy.\ ■"• ' .';■ k [Our.: correspondent is quite at liberty' to ;; r ;<..tell us in; bur 'columns—(i)-."What 'evil rer .curablo..by::the.. : "roiorm":.'hb advo-/ ;;'-''catesrhaye.become visibfe;'.'aid,(ii) the ;/;' -./ exact' scheme /that the /reformers .propose' v ; ■/in/,substitution>pf /; theipreseutZ/arranse-' /;»'ment. ;.';;l'he; .theory that ;; ; :;has;done., with profit, we ;■;;.;'also'should.'thereforc,, do it; is .certainly' ,;. /-'not,ipne'.that ha9.enough 1 plausibility; to • '~;,be worth the honour of j a formal destrue-•■ :-,'? ,Bon. ! -';-.We introduced'Prbfeesor- von • Zedname,; not/only:, because-: he origi;;;".;nated.the present,discussion; bat also ae-. ".;,/ cause; ; .he cah ; ,perceive, the:arguments in -,:;"- /favour',of •■ the;,retention;-.for/ithe present, j ':;'.,v'of;tKe existing systombf examinations for ]