EXPRESSED IDEALS
BY STUDENTS .IN BRITAIN
NO NEED FOR DISMAY
DUNEDIN, May 20
In an address to students at the capping ceremony, Dr W. B. Benham, professor of zoology at Otago TJnivensity said: —“You need not be dismaytd when you read .that at some universities in Britai n resolutions have been passed by insignificant groups of students indicating refusal to fight for their country, or expressing sympatny 'with Communism.
“These arc signs,” he continued, “that youth is thinking along lines different from those tof their fathers. They are striving after some new ideals. They a,re at least studying new subjects, gettjng out of grooves, and in their enthusiasm their opinions escape from them with effervescence like gas. As they gnow older they may find that their- enthusiasms have been misplaced, and these views will alter.
“It shows that they are standing for freedom of thought and freedom of expression, .however unconventional they may be, but which they believe at the moment to be truth.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 May 1933, Page 3
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