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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 14, No. 11. September 6, 1951

Technological and Democratic

Technological and Democratic

The idea of an empirical culture dominates university study rather than general reasoning and the approach is more analytical with emphasis on results.

By now the once wrongly labelled lower classes have been assisted to the university and many of these regard the university merely as a hurdle to material wealth. Frills are now irrelevant and "moat are willing to leave wisdom to others as long as they can rake in the shekels" and this means that exams become the dominating factor and prevent real university life.

It is probable that Victoria is a mixture of all three with an emphasis on the last type so that there is a . . .