UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BLOCK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22578, 17 November 1936, Page 13

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BLOCK

Sir,—The University C'ollcgo Council is to bo congratulated on the way in which it has solved the problem of overcrowding. It has also solved a number of other problems. The departments of biology and botany aro to be transferred to the three tennis courts near Symonds Street; eventually, when tho plan is completed, tho physics department will cover the fourth court, and the new library will stand on tho cricket practice nets. The college will then be saved from the Amcricanisation which may revitalise the language but destroy the best university tradition. There will bo no danger of the college calendar relegating tho Library to one page and featuring tho grounds and campus of over one hundred acres to five pages as is common with American universities. The chief disadvantage will be that students will miss that character training that comes from a deliberate decision to work. There will be no option except to work. Even to stand and talk will create a traffic block in the narrow passageways between the buildings. All will go according to plan unless there is sufficient room outside of tho library and lecture rooms to open a newspaper, or unless tho pingpong room becomes a den for those evils that range between two-up and roulette. G.