DOMINION NEWS

Grey River Argus, 21 October 1936, Page 6

DOMINION NEWS

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, October 20. Writing in the Victoria Un.vers’ty College magazine. Professor Hw Mackenzie,. who is retiring after thirty-seven years as Professor of English’ ’ Language and Literature, staid that Modernists and Futurs" had already captured the University, and securely established themselves in most of our professorial <-h.-r rs. I' wa.s obvious that a n’tjw secular renaissance. anfl new ethical and religious reformation were overdue. ‘‘lt. must be regretfully admitted that the Ohl World re'igums and philosophies have failed us, and the old humanity or culture begotten of th serious and systematic study of an cient classics has also failed us. It i.s to be hoped that the modernised and fntur'st Universities, 'will succeed in formulating new and stab’e tn’er national ethics -that command the assent of all nations, acquire the status and sanctity' of a universal relgion. and so save civilisation from what an present looked like its inevitable extinet’ou. What is most disconcerting and disheartening to me, an old man. 's to find Hie obi religion and the philosophy to which I owned allegiance, and owed s0 > much., have tailed to contr'butcj anything toward pre venting the cr'm.’na? savagery at present Tract we'd all over the war’dand threatening to extinguish e. wl sation itself. Can our Modernist and F'dti’ist Un'vers’t'es contribute an’' Hvng of value toward formulating tin international ethic which when adequately appreciated, w’H command international and tin versa? assent" That is a consummation devoutly t n be washed. ROTARY CONFERENCE. WELLINGTON. October 20. At a Rotary- luncheon to-day. tlm ex-District Governor of Rotary. Mr •T. M. A. T’ott. announced that the Pan-Pac : fie Rotary- Conference of 1937 would be hefd in Wellington, w'th the Wellington nrgn»<. c n.tion as the host club. It was thought the de’egates would number at. least eighty men and the visiting party Would number about. 149. but International Rntnrv had placed the number at about 250. w'th pqrhaps 200 women. The delegates were to moot for the first t mo in WeHingtpn on March 2. and the conference. wou\] last unti.l March 0.