THE ENERGY OF YOUNC AUSTRALIA.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12754, 29 March 1910, Page 2

THE ENERGY OF YOUNC AUSTRALIA.

MR FOSTER ERASER'S STRICTURES.

OPINION IN MELBOURNE. [Press Association —Copyright.] (Received March 28, 9.30 a.m.) Melbourne, March 28. The Premier considers that Mr Foster Fraser's comments on tlie flaccidity of Australians are simple nonsense. On the average the Australian workman will do as much in eight hours as the British workman in nine or ten. The Rev E. Sugden,' master of Queen's College, says he has no patience with a peripatetic journalist like Mr Fraser, who spends a fow weeks here ancl from the pinnacle of his superior detachment presumes to criticise. Mr Fraser's libels on tho youth of Australia are unjustifiable. When a man makes the statement that "Sydney stands for pleasure; Melbourne for business; Adelaide for culture," a ridiculous statement which has nothing to recommend it except its epigrammatic form, he shows a superficiality which should not be taken seriously. Dr Leeper Walden, of Trinity College, thinks there is something in Mr Fraser's strictures* The ambitious student at Melbourne University does not work as. hard as his brothers in, the Home universities. Australian students seem lacking in spirit and enthusiasm for national affairs.