Is Victoria a Glorified Night School?

Where is the prestige of Victoria in the capital? Why are students all treated as though they are attending a glorified night school and not a seat of learning as Victoria should be?

The first answer that we can give to this is shown in a recent edition of the "Evening Post." Look at the figures for attendance at the University. Out of a total roll of over 2,500 only a mere 800-odd are full - time students. Can it be that the students themselves do not treat Victoria as a University at all? Surely it is not true, that we are only attending a night school. But if we are not then why is it that in the Calendar every year we find that most important units (or rather units that are taken by a large number of students) are all after five in the afternoon. If this is not to enable the students to attend the university after their normal day's work, then what is it? It should be that the students are putting their university studies first but, instead, they are going off to work —and the studies are only second to this. And not only that. The powers-that-be condone this. Otherwise, why the timetable as it is?

—R.S.L.