The Spike: or, Victoria University College Review, June 1921
New Zealanders Get Grades Given at Oxford College
New Zealanders Get Grades Given at Oxford College.
Wouldn't it be a knock-out to wait three months to get a peep at your quarter's grades? And wouldn't it knock you back to 1872 if you had to do all your work at night? Maybe it would; but anyway, that's what those who seek the light of knowledge in New Zealand have to do. Besides all this, the Britisher's sense of humour is brought to play, for it is to English correctors that, final grades be attributed. No doubt many a poor dumbell has wished the ship would sink with his papers on board while it crossed the bloomin' deep for the sceptical eye of the Oxford corrector.
It comes to Stanford from the best authority that New Zealand school sessions are no less than six months long, April to September, but everyone knows what a prof, can proffer in six months.
Night schools and Oxford correctors have their advantages, however, for you can always find the source of faculty blame. There is only one instructor in each department.
Just a minute! Don't leave! There are usually only two women enrolled in the average New Zealand university. They get their learnin' at home. Alas. They shall never know the wonders of the Engineering Comer.