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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 11. September 6, 1951
A Chaotic State . .
A Chaotic State . . .
Newman's idea can be contracted with our own university. His thesis set out four main principles:
| (I) | The university must concentrate on mental development for its own sake. |
| (II) | Education in universities must be general rather than specialised. |
| (III) | There must be a systematic philosophy of some sort so that education does not degenerate into fact absorption. |
| (IV) | Theology must be the central subject of the courses. |
At Victoria we have none of the family or community spirit emphasised by Newman we are, in fact more like telegraph poles entrenched in individualism with nothing to say to each other. The ideal of a rounded scholar does not enter our heads. Newman's idea which did once exist in some measure was changed during the