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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 15, No. 1. March 5, 1952

Commerce Students!

Commerce Students!

Commerce Students are a great part of the dull grey flood, the lifeless mass.

If it appears that Salient preacheth too much, having homilised science students on the opposite side of the page; it is only a storm warning.

The ivory towers of science are higher than the temples of commerce. Ivory towerists ignore University affairs from the beginning. A pretence of interest does not occur to them.

When the active students take rash action or even take action at all the dull grey flood roars up pretending to have been interested in College affairs all the time. Sometimes they take action. Often they moan loudly, often and long about our "irresponsible."

They never attend meetings. Don't bother to vote. Salient is unknown to them. Other Sports Clubs claim their loyalty. Culture is a naughty word somehow associated with long hair poets and is definitely "not done." Drama, debating, poetry readings and lectures are outside their ken.

In New Zealand Commerce graduates filter in to influential bodies such as the Chamber of Commerce, the Manufacturers Federation and others. In these organisations narrow minds do no good and although it is from them that support for better Universities should come it often does not. Far seeing minds in New Zealand will rarely be seen certifying balance sheets if the flood remains: dull, grey and mainly commercial.