Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 24, No. 12. 1961.
Concrete Embodiment
Concrete Embodiment
We have in the Student Union Building a concrete embodiment of a number of desirable abstract ideas: Little Theatre, cafe, common rooms, and so on. Yet the realisation of these ideas is a far cry from the expectation. So we tend to speak of the S.U.B. in the terms of the abstract ideas rather than the concrete facts. People do this every time a new building is opened.
No matter whether the plunket rooms, or church, or hostel, or assembly hall, are designed well for their respective functions, no matter whether (he building is appropriate to its surroundings, or beautiful in itself: the building is there, it will be used for that purpose, and it has cost so many pounds. That is all the general public wants to know, and there the matter ends! The same thing happened with the S.U.B. It is opened, and speakers vie with one another to boast about the glorious view, the excellent cafe, accommodation, and the most modernly equipped Little Theatre in the Southern Hemisphere. And nobody can hear because the room has such poor acoustics!