PREVIEW OF WINTER COURSE TOPICS
EAD OFFICE of the NBS and the Advisory Committees in the various centres have been busy lately drawing up the schedules for the Winter Course Talks for 1946. Because Monday is its night, 2YA will lead off on Monday, April 29, at 7.15 p.m, The opening series will be a review of Pacific history and problems from the New Zealand angle, and Professor F. L. W. Wood, Professor of History at Victoria University College, will give the introductory talk on April 29. He will be followed by Dr. G. H. Schole- | field, on Pacific history; George Lawn, | on the economics of the Pacific; Dr, Ernest Beaglehole, on "Clash of Cultures"; and Professor Leslie Lipson, on "Peace Comes to the Pacific." ; This series will be followed by one on the development of the novel, by Professor Ian A. Gordon. Station 2YA also plans a series on "Science and the
Community," and will have something to say later about the history of the political franchise-this is election year. At Auckland, 1YA will lead off with a series, "Insects and Man," of which the opening talk (on May 2) will be given by Dr. W. Cottier, of the Plant Research Bureau. This station is also contemplating a series on the history and principles of criticism, and others on the position of the engineer in society, and present-day trends in education. The first series at 4YA will be "The University and the Modern World," and the first talk will be given on April 30 by Dr."K, J. Sheen. Among the other speakers will be Professor D. D. Raphael, newly appointed professor of philosophy at the University of Otago, who speaks with experience of British universities. Another ‘prospect for the 4YA course is "Lakeland and Fiordland," a series of talks on the characteristics of this region in Otago and Southland. The schedule from 3YA will be announced shortly,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 29
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