STREET ACCIDENT

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 154, 30 June 1921, Page 8

STREET ACCIDENT

While crossing . Lambton-quay, opposite the junction of Featherston-street, about a quarter to 3 this afternoon, a man named William Mostem, stated to be a Supreme Court messenger, and residing at 62, Wright-street, was caught between two tramcars and injured. He was carried into the Central Hotel and attended to by Dr. M'Evedy, who found that the man was suffering from abrasions to the left leg, chest, and head. He was removed to the Hospital.

The University examination) system id a perpetual target for a. multitude of critics. Mr. H. Rands, M.A., B.Sc., in a lecture on industrial chemistry given,before the Philosophical Society..' said1 no good word for it. The responsibility for the lack of men skilled in applied chemistry i,ii New Zealand, he said, lay at the door of the examination system, which "hangs as a millstone round* our necks." He would not attempt to describe this effect himself, but would quote Professor Donnan, of the London University. The professor said that if young chemists and younp: engineers who intended to enter the field of applied chemistry could meet and work together in laboratories of chemical engineering, a vista of magnificent possibilities was opened up. "What, then, can possibly hinder such an urgently necessary and easily accomplished development? The answer is, alas, only too obvious —the cold, dead hand of the British examination degree system, which, in a perpetual and dread rigor mortis, grips the living flesh of our youth. And the curious fact is that the more modern and newly-founded a British University is, the more it suspects its professors and the more it seeks to save its soul by the scheduled manufacture of ' examination degrees ' rather than the unfettered training of men and the free pursuit of knowledge. This is the monstrous thing which stretches out its dead fingers and separates the University laboratory from the living world of manufacture and industry. . . ."