MATRICULATION.
Sir, —It is apparent from the letter of your correspondent " Catapult " that he is typical of the class who are endeavouring to render university education, as it is understood in other parts of the British Empire, impossible in Now Zealand. No Homo university would allow any candidate to matriculate who did not pass in two languages. Latin is invariably a sine qua non, and the partial pass system which degrades our university oy allowing Eersons of an inferior intellectual type to ecome undergraudates is unknown in the British Isles. Pending a full introduction of the accrediting system, the best course for persons who hold the opinions of your correspondent is to restrain their "vaulting ambition" until they ittain the age of 30, when it becomes possible, horrlbile dictu, for the professors of th« Auckland College to provisionally nastriculate them, without subjecting thesa highly-cultured youths to the intense mental strain involved in learning either the French for "cat" or the Latin for " dog." B.A.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 9
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