KNOX COLLEGE

Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 13

KNOX COLLEGE

FOUNDATIDN DAY DINNED Principal J. Dickie, proposing the toast of “ The College ” at the Knox College Foundation Day dinner on Thursday evening, drew attention to the fact that there were now four students in Knox whose fathers had also attended that institution. Me said that, when in Aberdeen, on his recent tour abroad, he had attended a dinner, at which he had met several distinguished people who had been freshmen with him at that University 45 years ago. He hoped that 45 years hence there might be a similar gatherin" of men who were now at Knox together. . . ~ Sr E. N. Mernngton, in responding to the toast as master of Knox, mentioned some of the New Zealand contacts which he had made during his recent trip overseas, including two meetings with Principal Dickie. Dr

Merrington mentioned also that the master of Balliol, Professor A. D. Lindsay, had said to him in conversa-. tion that he would accept without further question any Rhodes scholar who was one of his men. ■ Professor J. R. Elder, in proposing the toast- of “The University of Otago,” spoke of the part that had been played by John Knox in furthering in Scotland, and ultimately in Otago the belief that no political or religious system was complete without an educational system, and no educational system without a university. He referred also to the retirement of Professor Benham and Sir Lindo Ferguson, and ho observed that they had witnessed many changes and deve.opments in the University of Otago since they had first become members of the staff- The Dental School, which had been founded in 1907, already had had two deans and three professors. All this development had come as the result of many sacrifices—a. fact which they were too ready to forget. Ino reward of the sacrifices that had been made was to be found in the quality of the product, and Otago bad good

! p Pi ie»ii be proud of the work done her sons. . . or R. Bevan Dodds, dean o| the Dental School, in reply, said that there were two tilings against whicn the University of : Otago at present needed to guard itself. The University was only too rapidly becoming spill up into ‘units, and there was a dangei or it ceasing to be a university at all in the true sense and becoming a cob lection of professional schools. Thai was where students could help, by arranging interfaculty functions . when* ever possible. A danger also lay in tin desire of students for more teaching. A university was not so much a place where ono was taught, as a place where one was given the opportunity to learn for oneself. ; . were given during ; .the evening by Mr G. W. Johnstone; and Ml O T. Baragwanath. -Th b accompanist was Professor T. D. Adams.