COLLEGE CADS.

NZ Truth, Issue 158, 27 June 1908, Page 6

COLLEGE CADS.

In Their Defence.

Missive poked under • the door of vovr Christchurch office ' —

Dear Sir,— Methinks your disgruntled remarks -about the escapades of Canterbury College students are inspired by personal animus. What exception can be taken to the harmless pranks that are annually' permitted and which merely indicate an exuberance of high spirits ? Such exhibitions, within proper bounds, are to be encouraged as being the outward and visible sign of healthy self-reliance and a sound body and mind. Repression is the worst form of education.— Yours, etc., NEMO. t Certainly repression is bad, but license, to the unformed character, is worse. The unthrashed kid enters the world at a great disadvantage and usually goes jlown m astonishment before the first licking he gets. The world is full of lickings. Present writer professes a certain rude admiration for the boy who transgresses wfth the certain knowledge that a hiding is to be the reward of bis transgression, and asks how many Canterbury Collffgians would have made beasts of themselves had they known that their pants would be dusted for the trans^ gression ? Rrobably none. Similar conduct m an orphanage would put the un-: happy 'youngsters on short commons for a month, which m itself is proof thai our higher education, under existing con* trol, is breeding; pampered snobs. )