UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17336, 6 December 1919, Page 13

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.

; DEVELOPING SOCIAL LIFE. DESIRES OF THE STUDENTS. The need for provision for the social requirements of students at the Auckland University College was urged by a deputation of students which waited on the Building Committee of the College Council yesterday afternoon, with a view to setting Defore members the wishes of the students as a whole. . The deputation asked that in the plans for the new building which are shortly to be submitted to the Government, provision shoiud be made for the students in their university life. It was stated that there had been complaint in the past that the students of Auckland were, devoid of college spirit—if this were so it was largely due to lack of proper accommodation, which might ensure social intercourse and bring the students under notice of the public. Henpe the desire that as well as large and convenient commonrooms, a social hall should be built in the new buildings, apart from the actual college itself, where students could hold such meetings and intercourse as they desired. A University was pot only a place of learning, it was a preparation for a wider life ; if the students of Auckland were restricted, as they had been for the last 40 years, by their surroundings, the true object of the University would fail. The committee undertook to give favourable consideration to the deputation's proposals.