STRONGLY OPPOSED.
Government Control of Universities. “ WE WOULD BE TOADIES.” Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, June 13. “ Once the principle of Government interference is allowed, the whole case for freedom is given away,” said Professor W. A. Sewell, Professor of English at Auckland University College, in an address to the Creditmen’s Club today. Professor Sewell said that the argument was often put forward that since the Government made the larger contribution towards the upkeep of the university it should have some say in the control of the constituent colleges and should have the right, in the last resort, to demand the dismissal of teachers whose expressed views might be inconvenient to it. If the Government had such a right, university teachers must learn to be toadies and every professor would be a Vicar of Bray. The logical corollary of Government control of university education was the spoils system and a general election would be as vital to a professor as it was to a politician.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20330, 13 June 1934, Page 7
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