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Index

• Academic Board, 270

• Academic Freedom in New Zealand, 214 n.

• Accountancy lectures, 108

• Acts:

  • Alien Enemies Teachers, 1915, 168, 170–1

  • [British] Nationality and Status of Aliens, 1914, 171

  • Education Amendment, 1907, 112

  • Education Amendment, 1915, 172

  • Education Amendment, 1948, 266 n.

  • Finance Act, 1932, 214 n.

  • National Expenditure, 210

  • New Zealand University, 1874, 4 ff., 131–2

  • New Zealand University, 1926, 207

  • New Zealand University Amendment, 1914, 151–3, 208

  • New Zealand University Amendment, 1919, 185

  • Queen's Scholarships, 1903, 111, 112

  • Queen's Scholarships, 1906, 112

  • Statutes Amendment, 1938, 208

  • Taranaki Scholarships, 1905, 113 n.

  • Victoria College, 1897, 22, 23, 111; its academic consequences, 130

  • Victoria College, 1905, 112

  • Victoria College Amendment, 1914, 152–3

  • Victoria College Amendment, 1923, 202 n.

  • Victoria College Site, etc., 1901, 82

  • War Disabilities Removal, 1927, 197

• Adams, C. E., lectures in geology, 52–3; offers to teach engineering, 53

• Adamson, James, professor of law, 102–3; and Spike article, 218; retires, 245; 287

• Administration building, 222

• Aesthetic movement, 175, 177–8

• Affiliation to University, 5, 6, 7

• Agriculture, chair of, 186–7

• Aitken, George, football star, 200

• Aitken, J. G. W., mayor, 90; as member of Council, 171

• Aliens Board, 166

• Allen [Sir] James, on University Senate, 149; Minister of Defence and Education, 164

• Anti-War Movement, 229

• Armadillan Absolutists, 252

• Army huts, era of, 244

• Aston, B. C., 260

• Atkinson, A. R., lectures for Forward Movement, 12; as member of Council, 165

• Atkinson, Mrs. A. R., reproves Mr Massey, 170

• Athletic Club, founded, 120

• Athletic Shield, 73, 122, 126

• Auckland University College, founded, 6–7; attacked, 10; invited to Easter Tournament, 72; and scholarships, 112; chair of agriculture at, 187; demands separation from University, 206; academic freedom at, 214.

• Badge, college, 61

• Bailey, Professor Colin, 247

• Ballet, Russian, 228

• Balls, 64, 66, 204

• Barkas, Mary, 114

• Barton, J. S., lectures on accountancy, 108

• Basketball Club, formed, 225

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• Bauchope, R. G., member of Council, 24, 25

• Beaglehole, Professor Ernest, 247

• Bee, James, 59, 260

• Beere, R. St J., captain of Hockey team, 70; organizes excavation of tennis courts, 91; commands O.T.C., 122

• Bell, Sir Francis (H.D.), demands college on hustings, 12; subscribes to gymnasium fund, 92; and fund for specialization, 99; and von Zedlitz case, 163–5, 167 n., 170–1; luncheon eloquence of, 205

• Bended Bow, The, extravaganza, 128

• Benham, Sir William, 221 n.

• Bentham, Jeremy, 5, 286

• Best, Elsdon, addresses Free Discussions Club, 198

• Bible-in-Schools League, 36, 282

• Bills:

  • Middle District of New Zealand University College, 1894, 17

  • Wellington University College, 1887, 8–9

• Biology building, 222

• Biology Society, founded, 225; tour of Canada, 252; publishes Tuatara, 232

• Biology, teaching of, 31; Kirk first professor, 53; first quarters, 55

• Blair, J. R., first chairman of Council, 24; and site, 26, 45; and grant for science, 48 n.; and Education Department, 51; and geology, 52; castigated by Spike, 86

• Blair, Mary A., 59, 63

• Blake, E. M., joint architect, 86, 87

• Blue Platter, tea-room, 58

• Board of Studies, created, 151; and University reform, 205–6

• Boaters, straw, 77, 275

• Bolshevism, incipient, 177, 182–3

• Books, read by students, 278

• Bowen, Sir Charles, 21

• Boyd-Wilson, Professor E. J., appointment and character of, 185; and Tramping Club, 185, 202

• Brindle, Thomas, debates, 174

• Brook, J. S., appointed janitor, 119; as subject for extravaganzas, 128–9; death of, 188

• Brook, Mrs. Runs tea-room, 125 183, 199; attends picnics, 125; death of, 199

• Brook, W. S., janitor, 188

• Brown, J. Macmillan, his notes on English, 12; and Reform movement, 142; becomes University Chancellor, 206

• Brown, Professor [Sir] John Rankine, arrival of, 27; personality of, 31–4; teaches French, 43, 55; his Song of Victoria College, 62–3; as euchre-player, 66; vice-president of Hockey Club, 70; and Library, 114; and University Reform, 137, 150; on senate, 137; and capping ceremonies, 203; at Silver Jubilee, 205; retires, 246; knighted, 246

• Bryce, Lord, 147

• Buchanan [Sir Walter] C., quoted, 20–1, 22; endows chair of agriculture, 187

• Building Committee, of Council, 85–6

• Building, college, 86, 87, 89; students subscribe to, 89; appeal for, 89; canvass for, 90; government grant, 90; opened, 90; new wings, 180, 183; biology and administration blocks, 222; army huts, 244; new classrooms, 266

• Burbidge, [Professor] P. W., 106, 260

• Caledonian Society, 9, 13

• Calendar, first college, 59; for 1902, 59, 60

• Calf, The Golden, extravaganza, 129

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• Campbell, John, government architect, 87

• Campbell, R. M., criticises Press, 195; converts Senate, 207

• Canterbury [University] College, and engineering, 53; and Easter Tournament, 72–3; and scholarships, 112

• Cappicade, magazine, 224; censured, 225

• Capping balls, in twenties, 204

• Capping Carnival, 127–8, 179

• Capping ceremony, and Stout, 126-7, 141; Lord Bryce speaks at, 147; difficult to control, 126, 202–3; in Library, 203; in physics lecture-room, 238 n.

• Capping procession, first, 130; banned 203, 225

• Carnegie Corporation, grants from, 189, 241

• Casualty lists, war, 173, 231 n.

• Catholic Students' Guild, 240

• Cawthron Institute, 184

• Cercle Française, 185

• Chapple, Dr W. A., 23, 96

• Charlesworth, J., architect, 86

• Chemical Society, 225

• Children in Spain, appeal for, 228

• Chinese University Relief, 228

• Christian Social Service League, 176

• Christian Union, founded, 63; early activities of, 67–8; and Miss England, 122; and Picken, 122, 123; later activities of, 175, 177, 190, 198

• Citizen, The, quoted, 13

• City Council, Wellington, and college site, 81, 82

• Clark, Harry, 159

• Coat of arms, college, 61

• Coates, Rt Hon. J. C., debates, 228

• Collars, high, 61, 64, 77

• Colours, college, 77–8

• Commerce degree, teaching for, 108

• Commerce Society, 225

• Commercial law, 108

• Commissionaire, employed by Professorial Board, 224

• Communism, its attraction for students, 214–5, 229, 242–3 n.

• Community, college's relations with, 108–9, 155–8, 182, 280–4

• Conscription, 176

• Consolidated Club Fund, 179

• COPEC, 198

• Cornish, Professor H. H., 187, 220

• Cotton [Professor], C. A., his Geomorphology of New Zealand, 52 n., 186; lecturer in geology, 107; lost dog alleged to be his, 118 n.; appointed professor, 186

• Council, college, composition and powers of, 18–19; first members of 23–4; starts work, 25; and site, 26–7, 45–6, 79, 80–1, 82, 83–5; seeks money for laboratories, 48; and law-teaching, 50, 99, 101, 102, 103; protests against Queen's Scholarships, 50; grants for geology apparatus, 52; decides on chair of biology, 53; on college seal and motto, 60; and college colours, 78; unwilling to canvass for funds, 89–90; makes grant for tennis courts, 91; presents chairs to students, 92; against religious hostels, 94; and marine laboratory, 95; cautioned by Spike, 104; founds chair of physics, 105; reflects New Zealand society, 109; and Library, 114–5; its relations with college teachers, 147, 262–3, 270– 1; and von Zedlitz case, 164–72, 184, 298–302; discusses needs of college, c. 1920, 179; and Sunday tennis, 190; its character in twenties, 182; investigates students' politics, 192–3; and capping ceremony, 203, 238 n.; negotiates site for hostel, 207; unsympathetic towards students, 212–9 passim; its liberalism, page 308 233, 262–3; cannot support medical scheme, 251; creates Publication Fund, 260; new financial power of, 266; administrative limitations of, 269

• Court of Convocation, 218, 263

• Cow, Brookie's, 128–9; Mackenzie's, 128–9 n.

• ‘Cram’, condemned by Spike, 74, 76; condemned by Jordan, 138

• Cricket Club, 121

• Currency and banking, 108

• Curricula investigation, 237, 238

• Curtis, Lionel, 107

• Dancing, 66, 71; see alsoBalls

• Debating Society, founded, 63, 64; arly activities of, 66–7; Union Prize, 113; Plunket medal, 122; addressed by Picken, 135; controversy over, 173–5, 191–7, 216; becomes more political, 228, and Anti-War Movement, 229; un-Dergoes slump, 235; recovers, 240

• Defaulters' camps, 231

• Depression, effects of, 210 ff.

• Dixon, G. F., founds Hockey Club, 69–70; and Easter Tournament, 72–3; and building appeal, 89; excavates tennis courts, 91

• Doyle v. Brook, case of, 128

• Drama Club, 200, 225, 229, 240

• Earnshaw, W., quoted, 15

• Easterfield, Professor Thomas Hill, arrives, 27; on Foundation professors, 28; character of, 37–9; fails to support Seddon government, 42; on Ministerial Residence, 46; on early science teaching, 47–9; gets grant from government, 48; vice-president. Hockey Club, 70; trains tournament teams, 73; favours Kelburn Park site, 81; advises architects, 86; is diplomatic, 88; signs building appeal, 89; canvasses for building fund, 90; demonstrates at opening of building, 90; joins O.T.C., 118; as chaperon, 125; as University Reformer, 135, 140, 141, 144; upholds research, 38, 259 n., 260; leaves college, 183–4; first professor emeritus, 184

• Easter Tournament, founded, 72-4; its glories, 126; war-time abandonment of 173, 250

• Economics, chair of, 160, 185

• Education Board, Wellington, wants chair of psychology and education, 11; and chair of pedagogy, 58; conducts Training College inquiry, 192

• Education Boards, elect members of Council, 20, 24, 152

• Education Committee, of parliament, 143, 144–6, 150–1

• Education Conference (1910), 139

• Education Department, 202 n.

• Education, teaching of, 108, 185–6

• Eichelbaum, Siegfried, author of The Golden Calf, 129

• Elliott, John, lecturer in classics, 188

• Endowments, rent from, 112, 297

• Engineering, teaching of civil, proposed, 53; and dismissed, 99

• England, Miss Maud, discourses on the Psalms and the Prophets, 123; on status of women, 175

• Epidemic, influenza, 176

• E.P.S., staff members of, 232

• Euchre parties, 64, 66

• European Student Relief, 201, 232

• Evangelical Union, 225

• Evening Post, on Seddon's collge, 23; prints letter from Maclaurin on building, 86; describes college architecture, 87; praised by Spike, 89

• Evans, Rev. W. A., his Forward Movement, 12; on gaol, 13; member of Council, 23; as chairman of Council interviews Seddon, 87, 90; lectures on ethics, 96

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• Evans, Mrs. W. A., 12

• Ewart, Miss, her boarding-house, 94

• Examination system, criticism of, 205–7

• Extravaganza, as art-form, 127–30; during twenties, 203–4; during thirties, 224–6; declared subversive (1941), 240, (1945), 250

• Faculty Committees, 238, 251

• Fees, and government approval, 18, 51; rates quoted from first Calendar, 59; in 1905, 112; raised in 1912, 113; ‘college fee’, 113, 153; in depression, 213

• Fell, Dr H. B., on Kirk, 54 n.

• Fencing Club, 225

• Ferguson, William, member of Council, 165

• Fergusson, Sir Charles, patron of Debating Society, 196

• Firth, J. P., member first Council, 24; vice-president Hockey Club, 70

• Fitzgibbon, E. J., wins first Plunket medal, 122

• Fitzherbert, S. W., 63, 66

• ‘Flappers’, arrive at college, 199

• Fleming, Miss M., 63

• Fleming, T. R., member first Council, 24; wants chair of natural science, 25; University reformer, 140

• Florence, D. C. H., professor of physics, 186

• Football Club, founded, 93; and Hunter, 93; works for gymnasium, 93; its golden age, 200

• Foundation professors, portraits of, 219

• Fox, Sir William, quoted, 3

• Fraser, [Rt Hon.] Peter, debates at college, 174, 183; seditious, 221; a student of the college, 221 n.

• Free Discussions Club, founded, 174; utopian, 177; has Christian Union fringe, 190; deemed subversive, 192–3; golden age of, 197–8; goes to church, 205; and Royal Commission, 206–7; debate forbidden, 215; publishes Student, 216; disaffiliated, 216; moribund, 225; new policy of, 228; and Anti-War Movement, 229; reborn, 250; its importance and fate, 253

• Freedom of Speech, 204, 206–7, 212–15, 218

• French, taught by Brown, 43, 55

• Furby, W. F., piano solo by, 64, 65

• Gamble and Cheed, Undergraduates' suppers at, 203

• Gammell, John, examines for Queen's scholarships, 26, 110

• Gaol, Wellington, 13, 14, 15, 21, 45, 84

• Garrow, James, professor of law, 104; place in pre-Reform system, 133; resigns, 187

• Gentle Gertrude, 173

• Geography, teaching of, 108, 247

• Geology, 51; Adams as lecturer, 52–3; Kirk declines to lecture on, 55; Cotton appointed lecturer, 105, 107; chair of, 186

• Geomorphology of New Zealand, by Cotton, 52 n., 186

• German, taught by Joynt, 49, 51; von Zedlitz appointed to chair of modern languages, 56

• Gibb, Rev. Dr James, helps Christian Union, 122; his sermons, 191; at Free Discussions Club, 198

• Gifford, A. C., fills gap in mathematics department, 105

• Gilbert and Sullivan, known by heart, 128; out of fashion, 224

• Gilbert, Father, and Free Discussions Club, 197

• Gillanders, W., excavates, 91

• Girls' High School. Thorndon, proposed for college, 26; its rooms used, 27, 47; meeting there to form Students' Society, 63; en- page 310 tertainments in the hall of, 66, 71; farewell to, 89; Library in the cupboards of, 114

• Glee Club, 63; revivals of, 121, 179, 200, 277

• Gordon, Professor H. D., 246

• Gordon, Professor Ian A., 220

• ‘Gottwald telegram’, 254, 276

• Gould, Professor W. H., character of, 186; chairman of Professorial Board, 212, 217; retirement and death of, 247

• Graduates' Association, supports Reformers, 144; 263

• Graham, John, member first Council, 24; interviews Seddon, 26, 46, 87

• Gramophone Society, 241

• Grace, Hon. Morgan S., opposes Wellington University College Bill. 10

• Grants, government, see Income

• Gray, William, lectures on education, 108; a University Reformer, 141

• Gymnasium, wanted, 92; subscribers, 92–23; opened, 93; decrepitude of, 223

• Hadfield House, 95

• Haeremai Club, origin of, 178; peculiarities of, 200, 202, 279

• Hare, Dr A. E. C., 233 n., 248

• Harper, A. P., 198

• Harrier Club, 225, 240

• Hat-bands, a cause of embarrassment, 77

• Hearnshaw, Leslie S., 245

• Heathcote, Rev. Wyndham, 191

• Hector, Sir James, 8, 9, 12, 53; on science-teaching, 51–2

• Henderson, A. S., half-miler, 73

• Hercus, E. O., 106

• Herdman, A. L., M.P., president of University Reform Association, 140; elected to Council, 140–1, 147; before Education Committee, 144

• Hetetics' Club, 123–4; demise of, 173, 174; attacked, 192; its non-existence discovered, 193

• Higgin, Patricia, 233 n.

• Hill, J. W., sings, 64–5

• Historical Association, 225

• Historical Society, 200, 240, 252

• History, teaching (or non-teaching) of, 43, 49, 97, 108; chair founded, 186; Wood succeds Wilson, 220

• Hockey Club, 63; Spike on, 69–70; and college colours, 77–8; wins championship, 121. See also Ladies' Hockey Club

• Hogben, George, and biology teaching, 51; and Kelburn Park site, 81; member of Senate, 140; and University Reform, 139–40, 142; reports on colleges, 149

• Hogg, A. W., M.H.R., quoted, 22; member of Council, 24; interviews Seddon, 46; and tennis, 68

• Holland, Harry, debates, 174, 175, 194; at Free Discussions Club, 198

• Home Guard, staff and, 232–3

• Horace at Athens, 64–5

• Hospital Trustees, and Salamanca site, 81–2

• Hostels, need for, 94, 179, 207; Weir House as one, 211–2

• Hunter, Professor [Sir Thomas] A., footballer, 92; appointed lecturer, 96–7; character of, 96–9; becomes professor, 97; his salary raised, 107; and Heretics' Club, 123–4; urges Mackenzie to go to gaol, 129 n.; and Reform movement, 136, 141 ff.; elected to Senate, 150; learns from Stout, 138–9; burnt at stake, 179; does not teach communism, 192; and Free Discussions Club, 197; favours separate universities, 206; attacked on Council, page 311 217; Principal, 221; knighted, 221; full-time Principal, 247; jestschrift for, 263; as administrator, 269–71

• Huxley, T. H., 99

• Income, College, 19, 91, 113, 145, 149, 152, 153, 211, 222, 249, 291–7

• Industrial Relations in New Zealand, by A. E. C. Hare, 248 n.

• International Student Service, 238

• Ivory Towers, deplored, 235, 237

• Jackson, Douglas, sings, 65

• James, Canon Percival, attacks college morals, 217, 224

• James, Dr D. P., 24

• Jellicoe, Viscount, and Debating Society, 194

• Jenness, Diamond, research work of, 261

• Johnstone, A. H., and college colours, 78; signs building appeal, 89

• Jordan, David Starr [President], his Memorandum, 137–8, 142; Stout seeks advice of, 137, 139

• Joseph, Jacob, and building fund, 90 n.; founds scholarships, 113

• Joynt, J. W., teaches German, 49, 51; resigns, 56; presents debating scroll, 73; chaperon, 125

• Joynt Scroll, presented, 73; won by college, 126; speakers at 1924 contest for, 195

• Kennedy, Martin, estate, 207–8

• Kirk, Harry Borrer, inspector of native schools, 51; professor of biology, 53; personality of, 53–5; declines to teach geology, 55; at opening of college building, 90; and marine laboratory, 95, 113; gets assistant, 105, 107; on Laby, 107 n.; arranges Library, 114; experiments with dogs, 118, 128; in O.T.C., 118; in baby show, 125; pays fine for Brook, 128; on Laby, 134; and University Reform, 137 ff.; petitions parliament, 147; evidence by, 144; destroys flies, 173; and ‘Twisted Teaching’, 217; memorial to, 222; retires, 246; publications of, 260

• ‘Kirk's Lambs’, 55

• Knight, Dr C. Prendergast, his distaste for Mount Cook site, 88; attacked by Spike, 89; excavates tennis courts, 91; and specialization fund, 99; and von Zedlitz case. 169

• Labour Club, 225, and Anti-War Movement, 229

• Labour in New Zealand, 233 n.

• Laby, T. H., professor of physics, 105–7; and Heretics' club, 123; and University Reform, 136 ff.; goes to Melbourne, 158–9; publications of, 106, 260

• Ladies, 121; see also Women

• Ladies' Hockey Club, formed, 70-1; wins championship, 121; picnics of, 125

• Law, first taught by Maclaurin, 43; Richmond as lecturer on, 50–1, 103; Maclaurin suggests payment, 99; decision to specialize in, 99; Salmond appointed professor of, 100; Richmond professsor of, 100; Salmond resigns, 101; Maclaurin professor, 101–2; Maclaurin resigns and Adamson appointed, 102–3; Richmond retires, 103–4; Garrow as professsor, 104; Cornish professor, 187; its teaching criticized, 218; Williams professor, 220; Salient has plan to reform teaching of, 237; McGechan professor, 246

• Lecture-hours, 42–3, 267

• Lecturers, appointment of full-time, 187

• Lecturers' Association, 270

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• Lee, J. A., debates, 228

• ‘Left Wing’, runs Saliient, 234, 235, 236; at Unity Centre, 240; self-questionings in, 242–3 n.

• Legislative Council, throws out Wellington University College Bill, 1887, 10; amends Victoria College Bill, 1897, 21–2; ignores petition, 169

• Library, beginnings of, 113–5; under Ward, 115–7; new accommodation for, 180, 183; under Miller, 189

• Lipson, Leslie, professor of political science, 221; resigns, 247

• Literary Society, birth and death of, 225; reincarnated, 252

• London, University of, a model for New Zealand, 4–5; royal commission on, 137

• McCallum, Robert, and von Zedlitz case, 171

• Macarthy, Thomas George, 160; chair of economics, 185

• Macarthy trustees, 161–1

• McDonald, F. J., 70

• MacDougall, Allan, Rhodes Scholar, 125; death in war, 174

• McGechan, R. O., professor of law, 246

• Mackenizie, Fraser, research work of, 261

• Mackenzie, Mrs, Hospitality of, 94

• Mackenzie, Professor Hugh, arrival of, 27; on Missionary Journey, 28; character of, 34–7, 247; hospitality of, 36, 189; teaches mental science, 43; at karori, 47, 128 n.; president Debating Society, 66; vice-president Hockey Club, 70; teaches logic, 96; and Manson bequest, 115, 265; and Heretics Club, 123–4; his cow, and high principles, 128–9 n.; and University Reform, 137; despairs of Ireland, 197; retires, 220; remembered, 287

• McKenzie, [Sir] John, Minister of Lands, on higher education in Wellington, 16, 17–9; and geology, 52; 249

• Mackenzie, Seaforth, his Foundation Ode, 88–9; author of Golden Calf, 129

• Maclaurin, Professor Richard Cockburn, arrival of, 27; character of, 39–42; teaches law, 43, 99, 102; and Students' Society, 63; and Debating Society, 66; and Hockey Club, 70; on college buildings, 86; signs building appeal, 89; his papers on light, 101, 260; professor of law, 102; resignation and later career of, 102; and Library, 114; 221

• Magistrate's Court, students before, 191, 253; W. S. Brook before, 128; Mackenzie before, 128–9 n.

• Maguire, A., builder, 87

• Malcolm, A. S., M.P., and von Zedlitz case, 171

• Manson, Donald, his bequest to Library, 113, 115

• Marble Bar, and Undergraduates' supper, 203

• Mare, F. A. de la, plays hockey, 70; sub-editor of Spike, 75; objects to raffles, 120; author of Golden Calf, 129; objects to Auckland Star, 184 n.

• Marsden, Dr Ernest, professor of physics, 159, 186

• Mass in B minor, 228

• Massey Agricultural College, 187

• Massey, Ht Hon. W. F., and University Reform, 149; and von Zedlitz case, 167, 168, 170; and Constitutional change, 183; and Chanak incident, 198

• Mathematical and Physical Society, 200

• Mathematics, one of first four chairs, 25; Maclaurin teaches, 39, 101; and Picken, 104; and page 313 Sommerville, 159; and Miles, 220

• Medical examination of students, agitated, 238–9, 251

• Memorial window, 204–5

• Men's Common Room Club, 124

• Mental Science, teaching of, 43, 95, 96

• Miles, F. F., professor of mathematics, 220; chairman of Professorial Board, 221

• Mill, John Stuart, 236–7

• Miller, H. G., librarian, 189

• Ministerial Residence, 26–7, 45–6

• Monro, A. D., lecturer in chemistry, 187, 229

• Moran, Julia, plays violin, 65

• Morison, C. B., member of Council, 147, 165

• Mott, Dr John R., 67

• Motto, college, 60–1

• Mount Cook site, 13, 14, 15, 21; wanted by Council, 26, 45–6; citizens and, 79; Dr Knight's distaste for, 88

• Murder in the Common Room, extravaganza, 225

• Murphy, B. E., lecturer on economics, 161; professor, 185; innocence of, 192

• Murray, H. A., professor of classics, 246

• Music, teaching of, 241, 247

• Music Club, 241

• Music Makers Club, 241

• Nash, [Rt Hon.] Walter, at Free Discussions Club, 198

• Newman, Dr A. K., M.H.R., 15

• Newman, John Henry, quoted, 83

• Newton, Alec, as entertainer, 65

• New Zealand and the Statute of Westminster, lectures on, 260

• New Zealand Educational Institute, 58

• New Zealand Times, attacked by Spike, 76, 89; prints Laby's letters, 136

• New Zealand Truth, attacks college, 216

• New Zealand Welfare League, defends status quo, 182; attacks college, 216

• Nicholls, H. E., produces plays, 64, 63

• Nicholls, Marjory, wins Plunket medal, 122; quoted, 123

• Numbers, student, 43 n., 59, 85, 89, 92, 112, 120, 190, 222, 232, 244, 258, 285

• Officers' Training Corps, 118, 122

• ‘Old Clay Patch’, 91; its songsters, 117–9; symbolic, 157

• Old Clay Patch, The, 119, 250

• Orchestral Society, 121

• O'Regan, P. J., M.H.R., member of Council, 24, 25

• Osborne-Gibbes, Sir Edward, 24

• Ostler, [Sir Hubert] H., editor of Spike, 75; and University Reform, 140; elected to Council, 140–1, 147; and von Zedlitz case, 164; resigns form Council, 165; memorandum on Opaku resrve, 291–6

• Otago, University of, 5, 100, 104, 112

• Oxford debating team, 196

• Page, Frederick J., lecturer on music, 247

• Parker, R. S., professor of political science, 247

• Parr, Hon. C. J., his interest in college, 183, 191, 193–4; leads procession, 205; as reformer, 206

• Part-time students, 267–8

• Patrick, J. E., 63

• Patriotic Societies, 163, 164, 168

• Peace, War and Civil Liberties, Society for Discussion of, 236

• Pentry, F. and Blake, E. M., architects of college, 86, 87, 92

• Peren, G. S., professor of agriculture, 186, 187

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• Peter in Blunderland, extravaganza, 250

• Petition Committee, and von Zedlitz case, 169–170

• Pharazyn, Charles, and site of college, 79–80, 90, 266

• Philosophical Society, 252, 280

• Phoenix Club, 225

• Picken, Daviid Kennedy, Professor Of mathematics, 104; character Of, 105; and college life, 119; And Christian Union, 122–3; and Heretics' Club, 123; Kirk on, 134; and University Reform, 134, 135; outrages Council by speech, 148; goes to Meibourne, 158; his memory of Laby. 158, 159 n.; publications of, 260

• Ping-pong tournament, 71

• Plunket, Lord, lays foundation Stone, 88; opens college building, 90; subscribes to gymmasium fund, 93; endows medal for oratory, 122

• Plunket medal, first contest for, 122

• Political Science Society, 252

• Political Economy, Mackenzie declines to lecture on, 43; 49. See also Economies

• Powles, C. P., registrar, 49, 58; works for Library, 114; retirement of, 161

• Prendeville, J–63

• Procession, see Capping

• Professional Board, powers of, 18-19; representation of on Council, 18–9, 24 n., 148; chairmen of, 41, 221; first meeting of, 42; conduct of meetings of, 51; and discipline of students, 59; advice to students (1902), 60; attitude towards extension lectures, 58, 113; and college colours, 78; and college site, 81; its suggestions for buildings, 86; reports on Queen's scholars, 111; uses Council room, 147; and von Zedilitz case, 161; and Sunday tennis, 190 n.; and accusations by C. J. Parr, 192; and academic grows, 199; and capping arrangements, 203; and students in 30's, 212 H., 224, 251; its relations with Council, 262, 263, 269–70; its respectability, 281

• Professonial Coference (1912), 149

• Profs Progress, The, extravaganza, 173

• ‘Pseudo–, cult of the,’ 276–7

• Publication Fund, 260

• Professors' wives, hospitality of, 94

• Queen's Scholarships, 18, 20, 21; examination syllabus for, 25–6; Council protects against burden of, 52, 110–12; abolition of, 112

• Quick, W. B., work for Libray, 114

• Red Europe, 183

• Reeves, William Pember, 11

• Refresher leave, provision for, 261

• 'Reichel, Sir Harry, royal commissioner, 206

• Research fellowships, 248, 249

• Reserve, Nukumaru, 9, 10; pays nothing, 80; income from (1905), 112, (1911) 113

• Reserve, Opaku, memorandum on, 291–6

• Reserves, Taranaki, 9, 10, 15, 19, 25, 113 n., 149, 291–6

• Returned Solders' Association, and von Zedlitz, 184; college branch of, 232

• Rhodes, Mrs Sarah Anne, and building fund, 90 n.; bequest of, 161, 265

• Richardson, H. L., research work of, 261

• Richardson, L. R., professor of zoology, 246

• Richardson, Miss R., recites, 65

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• Richmond, H. P., first college B.A. and L.L.B., 59; vice-captain hockey team, 70; has idea of tournament, 72

• Richmond, Maurice, lecturer on law, 50–1, 95, 99; suggests motto, 60–1; professor of law; 100, 103; retirement of, 103–4; defends Brook in Magistrate's Court, 128; pays fine for Mackenzie, 129 n.; place in university system, 133

• Rifle Club, 121

• Ritchie, David lecturer on political economy, 49, 95–6

• Roberts, Freddy, knee of, 92

• Robertson, P. W., senior scholar, 59; Rhodes scholar, 125; professor of chemistry, 184

• Robisson, G. G. S., registrar, 161

• Rosencrantz and Guildenatern, 65

• Round Table, 107, 157

• Royal Commissions on University (1878–9), 5, 6, 17, 139, 293; (1925), 200, 206

• Russell, Hon, G. W., 167 n.

• Russin, provides moral touchstone, 234

• salaiues, of staff, 10, 25, 49–50, 53, 55–6, 96–7, 99, 101, 105, 107; distinction between professors and lectures one of salary, 110, 112

• Salient, founded, 226; social message of, 228; attacks fascism 229, 230; quoted, 233 n., 237; called subversive, 235; oriticized, 237–8; given to fargon, 238 n.; effect of, 240; compared with Spike, 240; well-edited, 250; its Ten Point Programme, 251; Auckland edition proposed, 252; on internal strife, 254; criticized by Spike, 233; wearies of word ‘fascism’, 279

• Salmond, [Sir John] w., professor of law, 100–1; books of, 260

• Scholarships, Jacob Joseph, 113; Sir George Grey, 59; Taranaki, 113 n., 291–6; research scholarship paid for by Laby, 106; see also Queen's Scholarships

• Scotland, Hon, Heanry, quoted, 10

• Seal, college, 61

• Seddon, Rt Hon, R. J., L.L.D., 17; his Victoria College Bill, 16–22; Evening Post on, 23; and Mount Cook site, 45–6, 79, 86, 88; and design for college building, 86–7; and college finance, 90, 91; turns first sod of tennis courts, 91; 249

• Senate, University, wants Wellington university college, 11; Memorandum of, 12, 16; relinquishes capping ceremony, 127; working of, 132; J. R. Brown a memorandum, 139; obstructive tacties of, 143, 151; Picken reports meeting of, 146; reforms of, 149, 151; Hunter on, 150, 153; 272

• Shuckleton, Lieutenant [Sir] Ernest, supports gymnasium, 92; material for extravaganza, 128

• Sheppard, Olive M., president of

• Students, Association, 233 n.

• Silver Jubilee, celebration of, 200, 204–5

• Site, college, proposals for, 13, 15, 16, 26–7, 45–6, 79; Pharazyn's letter on, 79–80; Salamanca Road site obtained, 80–2; Nelson College offer declined, 81–2; might-have-beens, 84–5

• Skinner, H. D., as librarian, 115, 116

• Sladden, D., 70

• Smad, 216 n., 226

• Smith, P. Martin, Criticizes Press, 195; maintains academic freedom, 205

• Smoking, in gymmasium, 124–5

• Soccer Club, 240

• Social Committee, 237

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• ‘Social conscience’, 157–8, 176, 215, 285

• ‘Social course’, 273

• Socialist Club, founded, 252, its processions, 254; 280

• Social Democratic party, debates with, 174, 193

• Socialist party, debates with, 193 n.

• Social Services Club, 200–1

• Sommerville, D. M. Y., professor of mathematics, an unsuccessful applicant, 105 appointed, 159, Character of, 160

• Song of Victoria College, 62–3

• Specialization, Royal commission (1879) on, 6; Stout on, 7; in law and science, 99, 105; grant for, 112

• Spike, The, birth of 63, 74–6; as early record, 64–5; on Hockey Club, 69–70; on Easter Tournament, 73–4; castigates Blair, 86; castigates New Zealand Times, 89; castigates Prendergast knight, 89; praises Evening Post, 89; on Council and professors, 104; on Library, 115; its poets quoted, 117–9; on Officer's Training Corps, 118; on superfluous clubs, 121–2; rejoices over ‘isms’, 123; on war years, 173; on free Discussions Club, 174; blasphemy in, 175–6; criticized (1915). 178; in post-war years, 189; lampoons C. J. Parr 193–4; upholds freedom of speech, 196; reports search for Truth, 197; on ‘flappers’, 199; on tramping, 203; Jubilee number, 204–5; denounces university system, 205; appeals for funds for hostel, 207; censored, 218, 242; reviews sport, 225; reports craze for Christianity criticisms of, (c. 1930). 226; becomes annual publication, 226; admires sailent, 227; on Weir House students, 227; on jazz, 241; compared with Salient, 241–2; its character in war-time, 242, 245; its contrasts, 255; asceticism of, 255; its reproof of misguided students, 271; on nature of university, 280; pleads for intellectual magnanimity, 280; on ‘Town and Gown’, 218 n.

• Sprott, Rev. T. H., aids Christian Union, 122

• Staff Common Room, 262, 278

• Statutes Revision Committee, and Victoria College Bill, 19, 20

• Stout, SIR Robert, Personality of, 7, 219; on specialization, 7–8; bills introduced by, 8–12, 14, 15, 16; criticizes Victoria College Bill, 20; and site of college, 25, 45; and law-teaching, 49, 50; wants extension lectures, 58; praises Debating Society, 67; president, Hockey Club, 70; speech at laying of foundation stone, 88; as an educationist, 84, 109, 139; and salmond, 100; and teaching of Roman law-teaching, 49, 50; wants extension lectures, 58; praises Debating society, 67; president, Hockey Club, 70; speech at laying of foundation stone, 88; as an educationist, 84, 109, 139; and salmond, 100, 102; and Heretics' Club, 123–4; opposed to smoking, 124; becomes Chancellor, 126; and capping ceremony, 126–7; invites advice from Jordan, 137; and University Reform, 138 ff.; retires from Council, 165; unveils memorial window, 204; relinquishes chancellorship, 206; advises Weir, 208; death of, 219; founds scholarship, 219; portrait of, 219; on loss of endowments, 265; h is utilitarianism, 286; otherwise referred to, 267, 286

• Strawbridge, H. E., 107, 287

• Student-assistants, 188

• Student Christian Movement, name of, 198; becomes liberal, 225; studies communism, 228; and Anti-War Movement, 229; acquires chaplain, 252; later char- page 317 acter of, 253; and missionaries, 279; see also Christian Union

• Students' Association, and tennis courts, 91; subscribes to Relief Fund, 94; and smoking by students, 124; supports University Reform, 144; and Parr's charges 192; and gowns for undergraduates, 199; and management of tea–room, 199, 223; and financial relations with clubs, 202; and extravaganza–production, 203–4; protests against reduction in bursaries, 213; disaffiliates Free Discussions Club, 216; protests against banning of Spike, 218; constitution of, 222–3, 253; sets up Building Committee, 223; supports patriotic funds, 232; and women students, 233; and Peace Society, 235; Manifesto of, 236; during war, 237-8; complex administration of 251–2; and Gottwald telegram', 254; interest in 254; its position in college, 270; see also Students' Society

• Students' Society, foundation of 63–4; sets up Debating Society, 66; and Tennis Club, 68–9; clubs to be affiliated to, 69; and college colours, 77–8; see also Students' Association

• Students' Union building fund, committee appointed to foster, 233; and Cappicade, 224; invested in war loan, 232; government subsidy for, 252; campaign for, 280

• Sydney Street Schoolrom, entertainments at. 64, 66, 71, 73; Miss England discourses at, 123; Capping Carnival at, 128

• Sunday tennis, controversy over, 190, 281

• Sutherland, [Professor] I. L. G., lecturer on philosophy, 188

• Syme, Ronald, research work of 261

• Taranaki Reserves, SeeReserves, Taranaki

• Taranaki Scholarships, see scholarships

• Tate, Frank, royal commissioner, 206

• Technical School rooms, used by college, 27, 47–9, 89

• Tennant, J. S., lecturer on education, 108; appointed professor, 185–6

• Tennis Club, founded, 68–9; plays match with Canterbury College, 72; and tennis courts, 90–1; and Sunday-tennis, 190

• 'Terms;, 59, 60

• This New Zealand, by F. L., Wood, 248 n.

• Till the Day I Die, produced by Drama Club, 229

• Tinne-table, first, 42

• Tournament, Easter, first, 63; money reised for, 64; tennis at, 69; account of, 72–3; Spike on, 74; at Wellington, 120; trophies won at, 126; abandoned in war–time, 173–250; revived, 199, 250; in Jubilee year, 204

• Tournament, Winter, 250

• Training College, Wellington Teachers', and ‘communism’, 191–2; seeks refuge at Victoria, 241

• Tramping Club, founded, 185, 201-2; 225, 240

• Travers, W.T.L., and Wellington College lands, 78–9

• Treatise on the Theory of Light, by Maclaurin, 101

• Treatise on Jurisprudence by salmond, 100

• Tweed hats, age of, 275, 277

• Twisted Teaching', 216–7

• Underchaduates' Supper, 203

• Union prize, 113

• Unitarian Church, patronized by students, 175, 190

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• University colleges, Hogben's report on, 148, 149, 295–6

• University and the Community, The essays in Hunter's honour, 248 n., 263

• University Chirstian Social Service League, 123.

• University Grants Committee. 249

• University of New Zealand, nature and constitution of, 1–2, 132–4, 137–8; foundation of, 3–5, royal commissions on, 5–6, 206–7; and; Reform movement, chap. v, passim; sec also Senate

• University Red, spectre of, 236

• University Reform Association, 140 ff.

• University Reform in New Zealand, 144

• ‘Untwisted Teaching’, 218

• Valden, H., endows research fellowship, 248

• Victoria House, hostel, 94

• Victoria, Queen, jubilee of, 17, 22; sanctity not claimed for, 286

• ‘Vision of Judgment, A’. 194 n.

• V.U.C.S.C.C.R.N.Z., 194 n.

• Wakkfield, Edward, M.H.R., quoted, 9

• Walker, Hon. W.C., 21

• Wallis, Bishop, member first Council, 23

• Wallis, Mrs, and women's hostel, 94

• War, casualty lists in, 173, 231 n.; student attitude to, 229 ff.

• Ward, Rev. B. H., librarian, 115–7; addresses Heretics' Club, 124; death of, 188–9; 287

• Ward, Sir Joseph, and grant for building, 85–8

• Ward, W.F., lectures on commercial law and Latin, 108

• Watson, Clement, member of Council, 24, 165

• Watters, Dr F. J., member of Council, 23

• Weir House, early history of, 211-2; criticism of, 27; growth of culture of, 250; its way of life, 279

• Weir, William, and building fund, 90 n.; his bequest, 200. 207–8, 211, 265

• Wellington, character of, 12, 14; in 1899, 29–30; and building fund, 90; its attitude towards college, 156–7, 280–4

• Wellington City Council, and college site, 80–2, 268

• Wellington College, its playing-fields used, 73; its reserves, 79, 80, 82

• Wellington Literary and Debating Societies' Union, 67, 113

• Wellington Socialist Society, 192

• Williams, James, professor of law, 220

• Wilson, Charles, M.H.R., and Victoria College Bill, 20; member of Council, 24; and Library, 114; and smoking by students, 124; his feud with professors, 145, 147, 148, 262; on college finances, 145; and von Zedlitz, 165, 166

• Wilson, F. P., lecturer on history. etc., 108; professor of history, 186; retirement of, 200

• Wilson, Marion K., senior scholar, 59

• Wilson, Mrs F. P., sings, 65

• Winter Tournament, 250

• Women, or ladies? 121; in War-time, 233; presidents of Students' Association, 233 n.

• Women's Club, 178, 200

• Women's Debating Club (Society), 121, 122, 174

• Women's Fencing Club, 121

• Women's Hockey Club, see Ladies' Hockey Club

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• Women's Social Investigation League, 176

• Wood, F.L.W., professor of history, 220; his This New Zealand, 248 n.

• ‘Work Days,’ 238, 252

• Wright, Hon, R.A., 193

• York, Duke And Duchess Of, mystified, 81

• Zedltt, Geones William VON, professor of modern languages, 56; personality of, 56–8; helps Brown write Song of Victoria College, 62; works for Library, 114; member of O.T.C., 118; supports Heretics Club, 123; on Laby, quotede, 136; influence of Laby on, 136, 139; speaks at University Reform meeting, 140; gives evidence before Education Committee, 144, 154; as editor, 144; disliked by Charles Wilson, 165; ‘case’ of, 162–72, 298–302; not re-appointed, 184; portrait of, 219; professor emeritus, 219–20.

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