THE ACADEMIC YEAR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22203, 5 March 1934, Page 5

THE ACADEMIC YEAR

,'■.■' STUDENTS REASSEMBLE ; i ':''■•,: (Contributed.)" * * ". •;«; To-day the gates of Otago University -trill be flung wide to *weloo*ne over 1000 of the youth of our. country-—students ;;gathCred from far and on the pursuit of medicine;; or law, arts or commerce, science or music, ■ all filled withi the exuberance Of youth' and the /sheer of life. What' aintiitions fib, their blood, t'i • emulate an Osier, or a Carson, a Rutherford; or ; . a liCverhulme, an Elgar Of other exemplars? Many are entering theVUniversify for thelfii*Bt to make any sacrifice .to the gods of knowledge, arid with ; keen long-: distancevsight they see .the end irom the beginnirig; throngs haver passed and will, pass through same gates, some to, honojur and' distinction, many to efficient, productive work \ for the ;gbod of human,ity and.the State, and some to the ordinary hum-drum;, life .'of the To ; Which company- will jthis one,': bfj that, belong? Will the with.which they stjirt but stand ■ t&js'fte'st of the years 'ahead? Will the spirit-triumph over all? Are they ifeady to follow; the- gleam, no matter what sacrifice ia dcraanded? The pulse of the citizens responds to ' the influx of young life!! 'GJIbom; is chased ■away.- shines more bfightly and older people ; relinquish the years ; of mingled joy and * sofrow? jand live over again in the Td professors and students aljke the citizens of Dunediri extend the best of good wishWv;t6r : '\the:ryenr: : ;l|934:;'} ';■;■' ■■■: ', -