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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 8 May 5, 1938
[introduction]
It is not only by accident that the halls of a university are known as cloisters. Academic seclusion has been the assiduous vice of universities for centuries vice which has proliferated hideously till today we have all institution whose concern with real problems has ceased.
Here and there small contingents of scholars ferret away at problems which everyone except themselves has stopped even recognising.
Outside the university lies a world gone berserk—situation follows situation in which clear-headed and well-informed opinion is urgently needed.
And all the universities can do, even when they stand face to face with this Bedlam is to avert their pretty eyes, and churn out a steady procession of case-hardened accountants and slippery lawyers not forgetting an occasional handful of amoral technologists (spoken of in the more respectful type of textbook as scientists).