Relations with the Staff

The Haeremai Club dance, referred to at greater length elsewhere in this issue, was noteworthy for the support given it by members of the staff. At present a large number of students have very little opportunity for meeting their own preceptors except in the class-room, and not unnaturally a feeling of constraint is bound to arise if this state of affairs continues. One of the back numbers of "Spike" contains the following passage—[we quote from memory]—"Education consists not in attending a course of lectures, but in sitting up till two in the morning with a friend with whom you can talk things over."

We do not suggest that dances should be held in this manner, but we do suggest that until there is a fuller and freer inter-change of ideas between the staff and students outside the class-room, V.U.C. will not be a true University.