Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 20, No. 8. September 14, 1956

Chance to think

Chance to think

Congress also provides that rare opportunity so important—the chance to think. It gives you material to think about in great quantity, and if you really want to, you can just sit down somewhere and think out not only your immediate concerns, but the ones you left behind or are perhaps going back to face.

Our modern curriculum-planned existence doesn't let us do that often enough.

Well, that is a brief outline of some of the more, significant happenings at the Cove. The place itself is also a delightful surprise.

You get to Picton and from there a launch runs you out through Queen Charlotte Sound for about an hour. Then it turns shorewards and nestling at the bottom of two sun drenched hills is the Cove, climbing out of the water, acres of it stretched out in the sunshine, your home for the next week.

Here you'll meet Captain Charlie, master of the Rongo, Stan Higgins, who runs the sporting side, the Mannings who look after everybody, and Clarrie Gibbons the student controller who has organised the Congress.