VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL.
A SERIOUS CHARGE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Welington, Thursday. The Victoria College Council considered last night the motion by Sir Robert Stout that a committee be set up to report on Professor Picken's remarks that students left Victoria College less sound in body, mind and soul than tlicv entered it, and that the University professor is a man whose value to the community should consist in his personality, individuality of outlook, and originality of thought, but such qualities" would chiefly serve to make life a burden to the men we call professors (so that there is consolation for some one in the thought that the conditions have minimised the danger of men with those qualities being imported). The Council, not unanimously, decided to take the matter in committee, and the pressmen were asked to leave the room.
Wihen they were recalled the meeting had broken up, and the only official information that could be secured was that the committee's work had been confirmed in open Council. It is. believed, 'however, that the matter ha* been dropped, and that members bad agreed hush the matter up as much as possible.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 129, 18 October 1912, Page 2
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191VICTORIA COLLEGE COUNCIL. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 129, 18 October 1912, Page 2
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