INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18954, 30 August 1923, Page 10

INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.

The visit of Miss Mary Dingman to Dunedin recalls the project for an international summer school of which she was the promoter. Held just a year ago in London, this school gave opportunity ior study courses In problems of agriculture and land tenure, theory of currency and exchange, trades unionism, welfare work .industrial legislation, etc. The study of Christian standards for social and economics life was the preliminary to a series of lectures on the various social theories of Christian and non-Christian groups. The chief object of the school was to develop a more sympathetic understanding of the relation of Christian ideal* to social problems, and also to‘give the student some concrete help in the way of realising these ideals in the highly developed industrial life in Great Britain. The lecturers came from Scotland. Wales, and different parts of England; scholars, social workers, business men. Government officials, a group almost as varied as the students, but like them in being enthusiastic about the school and its object. Among fhe 24 women enrolled in the school there were no fewer than 16 nationalilies—Austrian, Belgian, Czecho-Slovakiaii, Danish, Dutch, English, Greek. German. Italian. French, Polish, Rumanian. Spanish. Swede, Swiss, American. Some were teachers, some professionally engaged in social work, some in industry, and less than half definitely in YIW.C.A.’g. To those who shared in the school one thing stood out pre-eminently—-the spirit of fellowship strong enough to break down barriers and evoke, even from representatives of countries lately at war, a spirit of mutual understanding that waa more than personal.