PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS
NOTICE OF MOTION BY SIR ROBERT STOUT. (By Tdp/uunh — ¥*vss Association.}, WELLINGION, Last Night. Sir Robert Stout has given notict* of the following motion for the next meeting of the Victoria College Council :—"That considering the grave raflections cast on professors and students of Victoria College in the following statements recently made by Professor Picken, viz., (a) A University Professor is a man whose'value to thcr community should consist in his personality, his individuality of outlook, and his originality of thought, but: such qualities would chiefly servo to make life a burden to men whom \vg call 'professors' in New Zealand, so that there is consolation for someone in the •thought that conditions had minimised the danger of men with, those qualities being imported (b) so far from work being done for which the University existed, the great majority of students left colleges less sound in body and mind and soul than on the day they entered, except "for the salutary influence of their personal contact with one another,' this .Council appoints a committee to investigate such charges, and report to the Council thereon." •'• i lis
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 5
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189PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10715, 21 September 1912, Page 5
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