UNIVERSITY SYSTEM IN NEW ZEALAND
AMERICAN AUTHORITY’S CRITICISM [United Press Association] CHRISTCHURCH, 18th April. Colleges of the University of New Zealand were suffering serious neglect which had evidently been going on for a long time and which must have the gravest consequences in the education system as a whole, said Mr Tyler Dennett, late president of Williams College. Massachusetts, in a Commemoration Day address at Canterbury University College. The lecture method of teaching, which, he said, had been discredited for at least 30 years, lack of personal contact between staff and students, inadequate libraries, inadequate staff salaries—these were the principl signs noted by Dr. Dennett of what he called malnutrition in the education system. He emphasised that he was merely repeating what had been pointed out to him by responsible New Zealanders. “Yet your Government appoint a commission to report on the condition of .your higher education as a commission might report on hours of labour in the crafts,” he said.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 19 April 1939, Page 9
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