WHAT USE IS THE UNIVERSITY?
HAT is the use of a University? \ X / Most people have a vague idea that it gives young people a lot of more or less useful or useless knowledge which enables some of them to get better positions and many of them to put on superior airs. One way to find out what the University does would be to imagine Universities abolished, and then consider what would be the effect on our daily lives. There would be hardly any department of life that wouldn’t be affected. For instance, your children going to school would suffer because their teachers wouldn't be properly trained. Then all sorts of. processes and things in daily use would in time be affected because research and the general training of scientists would have suffered, Points like these are going to be considered in the first series of Winter Course talks at 2YA this season, beginning on Monday, May 13. F. L. W. Wood, Professor of History at Victoria University College, will lead off with a general consideration of what the University does for us in our daily life. The second talk will consider the humanities as the University fosters them, when the speaker will be H. G, Miller, Librarian at Victoria University College. The third talk will deal with the connection between the University and science.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 24
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225WHAT USE IS THE UNIVERSITY? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 46, 10 May 1940, Page 24
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