GERMAN CULTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 150, 22 December 1914, Page 3

GERMAN CULTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY

TO THB EDITOR. Sir,—l ask your indulgence to insert this reply to your correspondent, Mr. Wolter, M.A., whose appeal on behalf of the naturalised German will, I trust, meet with sympathy of all fair-minded Britishers. I believe that no ill-will or prejudice should be shown members of any community of German birth or extraction so long as they conform to the law of our country. At the same time our thanks are due to "Maori" for his patriotic action in bringing to the public's notice the faot that an enemy subject, who has deliberately maintained his allegiance to Germany, has been allowed to remain in service of the highest educational institution in this country: Mr Wolter, who I fancy is a graduate of the universjty, does not allude to this part of "Maori's" letter, as he surely cannot be blind to the justness of "Maori's" remarks, more so as he* himself ' has declared that a German who has becomo a naturalised Britisher is thereby for ever debarred from holding 9, publio position in Germany. A few months ago the New Zealand University passed a resolution_ against the cruel, wanton, and indefensible destruction of the ancient University of liouvain by the modern Huns, and. in order to enable them to carry od their work, temporary accommodation has; been offered by the Cambridge University, which offer was accepted gratefully by both ' professors and student* of'the now ruined j Tiouvain. But what is the consistent New I Zealand University doing? Keeping an enemy subject in its services! It looks as if this ia due to personal sentimentality of those powers that be ruling the university in question. Has any such regard been shown to clerks or workmen throughout 'New Zealand who are German?—l am, etc., REMEMBER I.OUVAIN. Wellington, 16th December, 1914.