VICTORIA COLLEGE INCAPABLES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1497, 20 July 1912, Page 6

VICTORIA COLLEGE INCAPABLES.

Sir,—The Council of Victoria Collego is n, body of gentlemen who know their limitations. They know: when to say "I can't." They know that they "can't" provide teachers, if they "can't" pay their salaries. They "can't" provide the law library with books so long as they "can't" increase their revenue. If the hundreds of students were to increase their numbers, the council would say they "can't" provide any further accommodation in that ugly, half-finished brick heap. Very true. But. is the Education Department going to allow the keystone of the educational nrctvjay to ho mined 6v botched by an incapable, impecunious council? As business men, tho council should set about placing the finances on a sound' basis. This "hnrd-up," hand-to-mouth policy is simply; bringing discredit on t!ho Law College of the University. For instance, why should Professor Garrcw be obliged to jiay out of Ihis own popket the .salaries of his assistants? You may us well say that Ministers of the Crowir should pay tlm salaries of their secretaries out of. their own pockets. . O , ' course, Ho one who knows what he is talking about would say these assistants are unnecessary. To dispense with them 's •to dispense .with . tfiic. thoroughness of Professor Gajraw's teaeJiing, and to substituto that abbreviated "cram" which in previous years was the password to sutvcess at examinations. You-must retnem ber that the classes have trebled in size, too, so when a professor gets a largo class to teach oTally, he must be ablo to test its-progress by written work, an impossibility with to many students, unless assistance., is provided. The council is very unfair to Professor Garrow; it forces us students to fall back on "cram," and it ruins the reputation of tho college. As for the law library, no fifth-rale lawyer would waste time in it. It is the poorest collection of old and dirty editions of out-of-date stuff one might wish to sec.' It is. only fair to Professor Garrow to add that he is quite' unaware of my writing this letter or of the identity of "LAW STUDENT. , ."