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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 177, 22 April 1920, Page 5

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STUDENTS PROM OUR COLLEGES. • Some <loubt is evidently entertained by the Minister of Education (Mr. Parr) as to whether the country is getting a proper return fpr the large sums of monoy it spends on ,the professional training of some of our young men in the university colleges of the country. Speaking for a deputation yesterday Professor Marsden was urging the claims of science for more support from the Government. Ho mentioned that tho teaching of science in the university colleges was needed for the production of teachers of the subject in the technical and secondary schools, and of trained scientists for industrial researches. Some of the other professional schools had. been aided mucli more generously than tho pure science branches of tho colleges, and while the men trained in pure science would help the community a great , deal, most of the men taking, for instance, the Bachelor of Engineering degree at Canterbury College, would help themselves mucli more than the community. Mr. Parr said he had been sorry to discover that two out of three of tho graduates of the Canterbury Engineering School went out of the country. ■ Mr. R. W. Holmes: Do you know why that is, sir? , It is because in this country any Dick, Tom, or Harry <!aa call himself a qualified engineer. Tha really qualified engineers have this matter jn. hand, and they intend to bring it under the notice of tho Government next session. Professor Marsden 6flid thai tlie bpst students would not bio up the study of science, because at present the rewards were so small Tlioy preferred to take up law or medicine. Mr. Patr: T am sorry to hear this I am more than sorr.v so many youaif men are taking up law, my own profession, for I know that it is being dons to death. Half of the young fellows Wring it up will not make a living. .They would be far better to go in for a scientific career, rather than to bother with tho law.