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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 1, No. 13 June 29, 1938

Intellectual Minority

Intellectual Minority.

But that is another story: suffice it to say that at this Congress there were present only what may be termed an intellectual minority, a factor that did not fall to receive attention—it coloured all that was said and for an observer at any rate created a sense of apprehension in all that was decided. Space will not allow of a consideration of the activities of the different commissions and sub-committees set up (a full report will be found in the Report on the Congress which the N.Z.U.S.A will shortly have) but in the general discussions, which were very animated, opinions ran very true to form—where everyone a few years ago used to see a new panacea in a "scientific" background to education, everyone now saw the same panacea in a still more vague "philosophical" background—as far as I could judge there was no very certain contact with the hard facts of modern life—although there was a very sincere striving after ways and means in which the student body could find stimulation for its dormant interest in the community and an outlet for its youthful enthusiasm when once this has been aroused.