EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 69, 20 November 1915, Page 4

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS.

After tlio resignation of Professor von * Zr-illif/, bad been accepted by tbe Vicj toria College Conneil the general pub- • lie naturally took it for grant*.-;! that

the incident was, at any rate for the iimp being, cl'wed. The College Coiin-j eil, however, inis seen lit to resurrect! the controversy, and has gone to ihe trouble and expense of’ having a history of the ease compiled and printed, says the Wellington Dominion, and “ it is difficult to imagine what good purpose can be served by publishing the whole story in pamphlet form. We can well understand that the Council should feel that the attitude it ha s adopted in regard to this muchdebated question requires a good deal of justification, but it is hardly reasonable that those members who desire to explain their actions to then constituents should expect the cost of their memorial to come out of the College funds. The Council has made a now departure in this respect, and not a desirable one. It is to he hoped that the precedent which lias been established will not he generally followed. It has hitherto been the custom for public men who desire to explain the ;r actions in pamphlet form to the people they represent to do so at their own expense The Council’s excessive generosity in awarding Professor von Zedlitz £/b0 —the maximum amount —as compensation for the termination of his engagement has been severely criticised, and not without reason. And now it seems that another call is to be made upon the College'funds for thepurpose of publishing the history of the ease, in order that' the Council s constituents, if they have.the time or inclination to wade through the document, may express their approval or condemnation. It may possibly require another pamphlet to justify this very unusual decision.”