PROFESSOR KIRK ON THE MORALS OF THE SHOP GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 4

PROFESSOR KIRK ON THE MORALS OF THE SHOP GIRL.

■ Sir—Professor Kirk's' address to the students on Freshmen's Day at Victoria College, was in some respects worthy of the occasion of its utterance and the slowly-growing traditions of Victoria College. In other respects, however, it was worthy of neither, and will add nothing to the speaker's reputation for tact, or wisdom. It was unnecessary,- surely, to disparage the morals of one section of the community in : order to establish a standard of conduct for another section. And in any case it will puzzle the.nlain and unscholastic mind to discover why a given action is permissible in a shopassistant but reprehensible in a student of Viotp.'ia College. Further, the odious comparison upon which the. professor entered involves' a reflection upbii a class who. speaking generally, do not find' it needful to.seek their examples of propriety and morality amongst the cosmopolitans of. our local seat of■■ learning. It might, in addition, surprise- Professor Kirk to learn, that members of the class he disparages are,' in very many cases, members of families which also send students to Victoria College. This being so, it seems scarcely logical to set up one standard of conduct for one portion of a family and a differing one forthe remainder.- Professor Kirk will in futuredo well, when giving advice, doubtless valuable and much needed, to his students to refrain from pointing the moral by disparaging attacks on other sections of the community.—l am, etc., . KELBURNE.