SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3803, 9 June 1928, Page 1

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.

A NEW ZEALANDER’S IMPRESSIONS.

Writing to a friend in Foxton, a New Zealander who recently left these shores and is now engaged in neurological research work at the Sydney University states that he finds the “Aussie” reputation for swearing to be a myth and that there is, if anything, less swearing there than in New Zealand. “Sydney is very American,” he writes, “and New South Wales has a dialect of its own. There is any amount of ‘copy’ for the newspapers in the city and occasional street ‘shoot-ups’ keep things goling. The police, of course, are armed and shoot burglars if they attempt to escape. The razor gangs liven the place up now and again.” Speaking of the University, he says: “This is a beautiful University and has just installed a carillon at a cost of £30,000. The architecture of the buildings is simply wonderful, but it is no use trying to describe it on paper. The great hall alone would take pages, j The structure contains a beautiful pipe organ. There are four large cancer research labs, here and they are doing good work. The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital which is Sydney’s largest hospital, is in. the ’Varsity grounds which are really a huge park, and in which are several beautiful affiliated colleges with wonderful architecture. It is like a small edition of Cambridge. The dental hospital, however, has only 23 chairs in the filling room and 13 not situated in a very good locality. The medical school, which is at the ’Varsity is not so large as the Dunedin School now. is, but has very beautiful old architecture, and a square tower, and like all the rest of the ’Varsity, has wonderful stained glass windows, and also gargoyles. The windows in the main buildings are really magnificient and there are a tremendous number of wonderful gargoyles!’