UNIVERSITY REFORM.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 8, 10 January 1912, Page 3

UNIVERSITY REFORM.

IO THE EDITOR. Sir, — "Interested" exhibits a knowledge peculiarly detailed of what happened at the 5911 meeting of tho Senate — details not to be found in -any printed report of tho Senate's meeting. I see no reason why such a person should not sign his name, and "as ho appears to_ have no _ desire to^ sincerely disouss the questions raised in my two articles, I do not proEose to reply to him. The matters raised y me were: — (1) Tho report of tho Education Committee was against the weight of evidence it took. Thirteen witnesses supported tho appointment of a Royal Commission on the University. Sir Robert Stout and Dr. M'Dowell alone opposed. Eighteen _ University teachers asked for the Commission ; none opposed. (2) That in 1886 Sir Robert Stout supported our present contentions; the University system is unaltered. Tho exodus of Now Zealand Univorsity students, of all kinds, including many medical students. (4) The absence of day University teaching in tho North Island. I only made a passing reference to the external examination system (as 1, 3, and 4 above are of equal importance, and deserve attention), (\vhilo_ ''Interested" only diicusjseij the examination system. — I am, etc., T. H. LABY. Wellington, 10th January, 1912