GRADUATION SERVICE

Press, Volume C, Issue 29501, 1 May 1961, Page 20

GRADUATION SERVICE

“Degrees Not End To Learning”

A university degree showed that a person had reached a standard of proficiency in some particular subject. It did not mean that the graduate could say he had nothing more to learn, the Rev. A. K Petch told University of Canterbury graduands at a graduation service in the Christchurch Cathedral yesterday. More than 350 persons, including members of the university staff and relations and friends of graduands attended the service.

Mr Petch said that once a graduate had completed his university course he should be prepared to pass other teste as he took his place in the community. There was a need for trained men and women to become involved in the moral issues which had to be faced in the world at the present time. There was crude materialism in the world today. It made no difference whether it was materialism of the communist or of the capitalist system. The graduate should consider whether he could make his ability serve both his employer and the community. Lessons were read by the chancellor of the university (Mr C. H. Perkins) and the president of the Students’ Association (Mr A. Hooper). Prayers were said by the Rev. P. Goddard (the university chaplain) and the Rev. M. Wilson. The Dean of Christchurch (the Very Rev. Martin Sullivan) gave the blessing. There are always thousands of people on the verge of buying a car. held back only by some secret caution.—E. B. White. I hate cars. I never get in one if I can help it. I regard them as the greatest curse that has overtaken the human race since the appearance of the pox.— Llewelyn Powys.