UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 996, 10 December 1910, Page 5

UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND.

PROFESSORS APPOINTED. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. December 9, 9.30 p.m.) , Brisbane, December 9. • The following professors have been appointed to the University of Queensland, established at the beginning of the year:— - . ■.■ ' Chemistry.—Dr. , Steele, Melbourne University. Mathematics.—Mr. Priestly, Cambridge University.. ' Engineering.—Mr. : , Gibson, Sydney University. Classics.—Mr. Michie,, Cambridge University. . . ■

THE SIXTH UNIVERSITY.Six full-fledged Universities for less' than five millions of people eeems at first sight an unduly large allowance. But six there will be very, shortly in Australia (said a recent writer). Four aro already at work;' Queensland has just made itself a Jubilee present of the fifth; and Western Australia, which has hitherto been content with stray lecturers from England or tho Eastern States, is moving rapidly towards the creation of a University at Perth. . . The'. Bill is worth, noting. It expressed, not so much the promoters' genuine ideas of. a University, :,as their' ideas of what Parliament—and more especially tho local Labour party—would accept and help to endow. Consequently, they laid great stress on the practical and technical side of education. Tho result was a puffed-up business college, which . the State Parliament was sensible enough to reject. .The/Act; .therefore, which nt last' incorporated, Queens-; lands University, differs : a good "'deal from the draft B.jll 0.f4R0.G.,, Faculty, ot Arts Tcsumes,ii,te ? n?opf'i,,jan!c.''.,"Gom-"' merco as. a faculty disappears, probably to be revived where Sydney now places it, as a. subordinate section of the. arts course. • Science and engineering are tho two other -original faculties.' Tho startling feature' of the constitution in the completeness of Government control. The University is in fact merely a loraiic-b. of tho State Department of Education—a fate against which other Australian Universities have persistently and successfully fought. In the fifties of last century. Legislatures were willing to endow education without claiming any share.of control in return. But no Ministry nowadays would propose to start endowments on that footing.