THE INJUSTICE OF THE PRESENT UNIVERSITY TIME-TABLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8540, 14 April 1891, Page 3

THE INJUSTICE OF THE PRESENT UNIVERSITY TIME-TABLE.

TO THE EWTOK. Sib, —Allow me to call attention through your columns to the hardship inflicted upon a large number of our students by the College time-table. As at present arranged, the lectures on mathematics are delivered on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from ten to eleven o'clock, that is, at an hour whey no student engaged at work during the day can possibly attend. " For the benefit of teachers and others," lectures occupying one hour a week are delivered on Wednesday evening. Last! year the " teachers and others" numbered 12 out of a class of 22; they are therefore surely entitled to more consideration than by the present time-table they are to receive. As regards the lectures on English, the case is even worse. Last year these lectures were attended by some twenty students, of whom no fewer than fifteen were engaged at work during the day. Yet we are told that the lectures on English during the present term are to bs delivered at mid-day only. Thus three-fourths of the students are to be deprived of the privilege of attending. Surely our University has not been endowed solely for the benefit of those who can afford to give their whole time to study. Yet that is what the Professorial Board appear to imagine.— am, &c. ■ .__ Student.