GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE
PROFESSOR SEWELL'S VIEWS [Pbk Ukitbo Press Associino*.") AUCKLAND, June 13, “ Once the principle of Government interference is allowed, the whole case for freedom is given away,” said Professor W. A. Sewell, professor of Eng. ‘ish at the Auckland University Col,egc in an address to the Creditmen’s Club to-day. He said the argument was often put forward that, since the Government made the larger contribution towards the upkeep of the university it should have some say in the control of the constituent colleges, and should have the right in the last resort to demand the dismissal of teachers whose expressed views might be inconvenient to it. If the Government had such a right university teachers must learn to be toadies, and every professor would be a Vicar of Bray. The logical corollary of Government control of university education was the spoils system, and a General Election would be as vital to a professor as it was to a politician.
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Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 8
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160GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE Evening Star, Issue 21745, 13 June 1934, Page 8
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