FANCY EDUCATION SCHEMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19459, 15 October 1926, Page 11

FANCY EDUCATION SCHEMES

TENDENCY IN AMERICA. UNIVERSITY AND MATRIMONY. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUNEDIN, TliuraJaj. Summing up his experiences :r.' America, where he spent a year in research work, Dr. John Cairney, assistant professor of anatomy ia Otago University, who recently returned to Dunedin, said: "I suspect, and I have some reasons for suspecting, that what I have observed in departments of anatomy is to some extent symptomatic of the general tendency in American medical ednsation, and, indeed, in the American university generally, a tendency toward new and fancy schemes rather than toward thorough teaching of old-fashioned things which have stood the test of time." Dr. Cairaey visited one university where the department of classics was empty, but the department of commerce was full to the doors. Again, he knew a university where the football coach, who had no other duties, ranked as a professor, perhaps that university's most highly paid professor, and was styled head of the department of physical education. Boston University—and by this is not meant Harvard —has established, <so a v-reekly paper states, the only course of its kind in the history of civilisation—a course in matrimony. It was further stated that when the lady graduates married they could pat after their names the lettfcrs C.8., standing for " certified bride." Dr. Cairney added: "I believe there has been in this country in recent years a little too much unqualified admiration of things American."