VICTORIA COLLEGE
We have been informed that Sir Robert Stout haß given notice of the following motion for next meeting of the College Council : — "That considering the grave reflections cast on the professors and students of Victoria College in the following statements recently made by Professor Picken, viz., (a) 'The University professor is a man whose value to the community should consist in his personality, his individuality of outlook, and his originality of thought, but such qualities would chiefly serve to make life a burden i to the men whom we call "professiors" in Mew Zealand (so that there is consolation for someone in the thought that the conditions t have minimised the danger of men with those qualities being imported,' (b) 'So far from the work being done for which the University existed, a great majority of the students left the colleges less sound in body and mind and soul than on the day they entered, except for the salutary influence of their personal contact with one another,' this Council appoints a comrrrittep to investigate such charges and report to the council thereon. The chairman, thn Hon. Mr. Bell, and Messrs. Ferguson, Mesk, M'Callum, and Ostler, and the mover are hereby appointed the members of such committee."-
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19120920.2.129
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 8
Word Count
208VICTORIA COLLEGE Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 71, 20 September 1912, Page 8
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in