UNIVERSITY WORK.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 4

UNIVERSITY WORK.

WHAT SIR ROBERT STOUT INTENDS TO MOVE.. Sir Robert Stout has given notice that ho will move at the next meeting of tho Victoria College Council:— "That considering the grave reflections enst on the professors and students of Victoria College in the following statements recently niade>by Professor Picken, viz.—(a) The University professor is a man whose value to the community should consist in his personality, his individuality of outlook, and his originality of thought, but such qualities would chiefly servo to mako life a burden to the men whom wo call "professors" -in Now Zealand (so that there is consolation for Bomoono in the thought tlmt the conditions have minimised tho danger of men with thoso qualities being imported, (b) 'So far from tho work being done for which the University existed, a (treat majority of the students left the colleges less sound in body and mind, and soul than on tlie day they entered, except for tho Balutary influence of their ' personal contact with'.' one',another'—this council appoints a committee to investigate such charts and to report to tho council thereon. The chairman, tiio Hon. Mr. Bell, and Messrs. Ferguson, Meek, M'Callum, and Ostler, and tho mover are hereby appointed the members of such committee.