TREATMENT OF N.Z. UNIVERSITY
CRITICISM BY AMERICAN VISITOR (United Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, April 18. The colleges of the University of New Zealand were suffering a serious neglect .which had evidently been going on for a long time and which must have the gravest consequences in the education system as a whole, said Dr Tyler Dennett, former president of Williams College, Massachusetts, in a commemoration day address at Canterbury University College. The lecture method of teaching, which, he said, had been discredited for at least 30 years, lack of personal contact between the staff and the students, inadequate libraries and inadequate staff salaries—these were the principal signs noted by Dr Bennett of what he called malnutrition in the education system. He emphasized that he was merely repeating what had been pointed out to him by responsible New Zealanders.
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Southland Times, Issue 23796, 19 April 1939, Page 5
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