“OUR ALMA MATER”

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 13

“OUR ALMA MATER”

RIVERVIEW COLLEGE MAGAZINE.

The December number of “Our Alma Mater,” the magazine of Riverview College, Sydney, has been published and contains the customary well-written chronicles of\ school activities, supplemented by features which are more or less unusual in the average secondary school magazine. The publication opens with an editorial by the Rev. Father W. J. Lockington, S.J., who deals with the problems of interference in education. In a few short pages he surveys from the viewpoint of the modern educationist the complementary positions of teacher and child, going on to discuss conditions in Denmark, and ending with some practical suggestions for Australian conditions. The article is a masterpiece of condensation, and Father Lockington states his ease very forcefully indeed. News of old boys occupies nearly a dozen pages. Obituary notices include a brief sketch of the” life of the Rev. Father E. F. Pigot, S.J., who was wellknown as one of the leading seismologists of the world. Much of his work was done at the college itself, and his collection of scientific instruments was added to from time to time, becoming finally the most comprehensive in the Southern Hemisphere. Communications from old boys and the general diary of school life in all its departments occupy the remainder of the magazine. Many fine full-pagc photographs and numerous smaller ones appear in the publication from the first page to the last.