EXTENDING MAN'S LIFE
GRADUATING AT SO
UVKTIPOOL. Feb. 12.
The suggestion that medical science would within the Renewtaen of Ins audience, be able to extend the norma! span of life to tive score, was made hy Lietlt. Colonel K. O'Brien, formerly chief eictvical engineer of the kSI. and S, Railway, daring a lecture at the universitv here to-day. When this time arrived, he added, men would probably leave their nniversuies to embark upon their careers at the age of 30. He therefore advocated a longer, more varied, and less specialised universitv education. "1 should like to see doctors and niedr cal students attending some of Hie engineering Uvtnres," lie declared, •and eiKineevmg students, for example, going to bear, saw the Professor of Economics putting for.vnrd ins highly doubtful theories," il.nngh.er.)
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11
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