UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 51, 2 March 1911, Page 3

UNIVERSITY SYSTEM. TO THE EDITOR.

Sir,— ln your issue of Saturday last. "Anxioua Parent" asks me to answer four questions. Had your correspondent had aoi opportunity of reading all 1 said, instead of only selected passages, I think his anxiety would have been allayed. The answers I would suggest to threo of tho questions are as follow^ — , (1) Inmy opinion it is possible to reform tho university system without depriving one student at present attending Victoria. College of the opportunity of acquiring a university education. (2) I know of no reason, why work done in tho evening should be of less academic value than work done at any other time. (4) No. The suggestion has been made before that the university is a, "class" institution. 4 I would invite any one who really thinks this is true to examine the faots, and not to repeat the suggestion until some Verification can be given. 11 Question 3 is of a different nature. It is not relevant to any issue raised in thf discussion of university reform. Apart from the fact that the students of Victoria College do not nominate the candidate nor select the Rhodes scholar, I believe the suggestion that a echolarship was lost because the Victoria College students had a down on any candidate is, in every SBnse, utterly false. It is not even neceoBary to point out that, if it were true such unpopularity would, under the terms of the trust, be a just bar. I believes that lv »u r i" cc ° m mendations to candidates for the Rhodes (scholarship, the committees of the Victoria College Students' Association have been actuated throughout by a hiirli sense of their responsibility, and by a spirit oi fairness, net to Victoria Collesro alone, but to rhe umvereity as a whole.— 1 am, etc., 9RtK r v F> A> DE LA MARE. 28th February.