ALMA MATER CHAMPION ON THE UNIVERSITY SPIRIT

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3074, 23 June 1923, Page 4

ALMA MATER CHAMPION ON THE UNIVERSITY SPIRIT

Champion lias boon informed that the words “Alma Mater” moan “The Loving Mother,” and we note Mr O’Shea thinks that Auckland students do not respond to the loving mother’s tender care because they do not play football in the University team. • On January IS), at the annual meeting of the University Senate, Professor Scott stated: “One engineering college (Canterbury) was turning out more engineers than -the--■country could absorb.” The Hon. Geo. Fowhls now states that: there are ninety-six engineering students, half of them man belated students, of the Auckland University who cannot sit in Auckland loi their examinations. Although a full inquiry was made by a commission of eminent engineers, consisting of Messrs Bush, Hamer, Hunter, Fraser, Lowe, and Crookes, who gave their evidence that the school was sufficiently staffed and equipped to prepare for the examination, Sir Robert Stout said there was no evidence “except a report from a number of Auckland engineers, and that could hardly be accepted.” Xow while wo in Auckland have been warbling about alma mater and the university spirit, and lulled by gentle lullabies about the humanities to a our incipient university still lacks many things. The Otago dons are putting in a modest claim for £120,000 for extending the medical and dental branches in Otago. In his protest to Mr Massey, the Hon. Geo. Fowlds has been lighting Auckland’s battle single-handed. His facts and figures relating to the medical and dental boycott of Auckland should galvanise our professors and registrars, who have, as Professor Dettmann alleges, plenty of time to think and plenty of time not to think. Can we not induce them to try. our