UNIVERSITY PROBLEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19303, 16 April 1926, Page 12

UNIVERSITY PROBLEMS.

VISIT OF THE DEBATERS. THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] • WELLINGTON, Thursday. ' The four members of the universities debating team and representatives of tho National Union ot Students of Great Britain, Messrs. A. H. E. Molson (Oxford), T. P. McDonald (Edinburgh), Paul Reed (London), and R. N. May (Birmingham), arrived from Christchurch this morning and were accorded an informal reception by the Mayor, Mr. C. B. Norwood, during tho forenoon.

"There is much of mutual benefit to be gained from such a tour as this," remarked Mr. Reed in an interview. "We have read the report, of your Royal Commission into university matters, and have discussed it fully among ourselves and with your people, for naturally we are very interested in the problems of the University of New Zealand, which are very much the same as those facing the newer civic universities in England. The Oxford. Cambridge. Rnd London Universities draw their students from all parts of Great Britain, and tho Empire, but the civic universities, for instance, the Manchester University, probably draw 90 per cent, of their students from their immediate neighbourhoods. Many of these civic universities aro. comparatively speaking, young, for the majority of them have been founded during tho last 30 or 40 years. From tho report of the Royal Commission and from our discussions with your universities we shall be able. I hope, to take back ideas of value to Great Britain, and possibly to leavo some useful ideas behind."