UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 August 1924, Page 13

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.

ANNUAL SATURNALIA. “Civis” writes in the Otago Daily Times:—Nobody grudges the Varsity its annual saturnalia. Professorial bigwigs look aside and wink the other ©yo-—-“We did the same in our time.” Discipline will be none the worse for a day or two of permitted lawlessness, and tlie students will be all the better —(now' and then to play the fool, a pleasant thing it is; —this useful tag was bound to come in, and Horace never said a wiser word) —also the victims ol academic; satire feel themselves honourd; and the grinning crowds welcome fun so innocent and infantile, so copious and -so cheap. Did the counterfeit presentment of the Hon. Air. Parr, Alinister of Education, grace the procession? I didn’t detect it. If Mr. Parr in person could have been induced to walk he would have been the most humorous object there. For report has it that Air. Parr is for abolishing the New Zealand University and setting up in its place four scarecrow effigies, one each for Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland. Four American correspondence schools w'ould be cheaper and equally of value. But why four only? What of Invercargill, Timarn, Nelson, Wanganui and Palmerston North? Every village big enough to boast a pub, a general store, and a Presbyterian kirk should have a university of its own, with degrees “while you wait.”