Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 9. 1966.

Paternalism

Paternalism

This excess of paternalism, interpreted by students as unjustified interference, did nothing to raise the esteem of the College Council in the eyes of students. The moral indignation felt, then at a high pitch, paved the way for 1933—the year everybody was involved in the struggle.

April saw the passing by the Debating Society of the motion, after the Oxford model, "That this House will not fight for King and Country." This seeming lack of patriotism was hardly guaranteed to promote the approval of free speech. In May, the Free Discussions Club began to publish a small, radical paper Student, which vituperatively attacked the remaining bastions of society.