CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1923, Page 2

CANTERBURY COLLEGE.

j[/BILEE CELEBRATIONS

[by TELEGRAVH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

CHRISTCHURCH. May 14. The Canterbury College Jubilee celebrations were officially opened this morning, when addresses were presented from various universities and colleges throughout the world. Professor McMillan Brown presented an address on behalf of the University of New Zealand. Bishop Sprot, speaking on behalf of Dublin, expressed wonder at the growth of the college. Other addresses were presented by Dean Fitchett, Dr Cameron, and Professor Segnr, wlm spoke on various aspects of Umvesity problems. The Jubilee is being continued this afternoon with the opening of the new wing ol the engineering school. * ENGINEERING WING OPENED. CHRISTCHURCH, May 14. The ceremony of declaring open the new wing of tiie School of Engineering at Canterbury College was performed to-day by Air Parr, Ministei of Education, in his speech, Mr Parr congratulated those responsible upon the success of the Jubilee Celebrations. He said he could claim that the pre sent Government had been liberal to the School of Engineering. He was in thorough agreement with his predecessor, Sir Francis 8011, who had declared the school a national school. Ho hoped lie had disproved the charge sometimes made in the public press that a North Island Minister was :n----capalile of taking an impartial view of South Island requirements. (Laughter).

Speaking at a reception to the delegates to Canterbury College Jubilee celebrations to-day, Bishop Sprott, of Wellington, drew attention to the small number of University men who entered public life. He did not know how far that was the fault of the Colleges, of the men trained there, or oT the people of New Zealand. He was inclined to think the fault lay with the people of the Dominion. New Zealand was participating in world movements, and it was required that some of the men in public life should he trained ,u such colleges us Canterbury College. They wanted men of trained imaginations, who could enter into the point of view of other men and other nations—men of historical knowledge, so that they would not try to make experiments that were made ages ago and found to lead to nothing. He was sure what lie was saying would he better addressed to the people of the Dominion, because he was sure the University was fully alive to such tilings, lie was sure Canterbury College would produce in the future such men as it had produced in the pax*, and he hoped the people of New Zealand would ho wise enough to make use of them in their public life. Ha urged on young men and women to adopt towards their college an attitude of patriotism, of giving to the college some recompense for what they had re ceived from it.