Alsatian

In what club does the full personality develop? Why, the one place one might expect—the Philosophical Society—he assured us had had to bolster up its attendances with an Alsatian pup! The Debating Society had once flourished: wit and humour had been its marks. Now he saw that these things were only imagination. It had, flourished like the green bay tree; now it was withering ("was that the Alsatian pup?") . . . and there was no health in it. In what department would one get a full rounded personality ("not in the Psychology Department anyway")? The social activities were the best—and the Drinking Horn would at least produce the full man. From the cemetery one might take away impressions which one would carry all one's lives. ("They get round to walking after a while.") Mr. Garrett's impartiality, he said, was in fact gross stupidity—imagine people calmly slitting their own throats. In a dilemma, he left us.

"Dr. Beaglehole has been so impressed with the importance of being earnest that he has forgotten to be John" quoth Burton Newenham in the best crack of the evening. "And Mr. McCreary has slit his own throat and left us to clean up the bleeding mess."

Could anyone seriously deny that the type of education which was represented by von Zeidlitz Was incapable of being over-rated? Certainly there were defects—but still university education was under-rated, not over-rated. He instanced the sort of treatment which graduates in various departments received. We do retain some intangibles from our university life, even when he don't realise this. But the university itself under-rates the advantages of university education. Why otherwise would students have had to have so many debates this year in that "great draughty barn down there?" Why else are the library facilities jammed; the caf. inadequate and the lecture system outmoded? Because the university doesn't realise the true advantages and it doesn't strain to make them capable of realisation.