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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 5, No. 5. July 2, 1942

Dear Sir,

The article in the last issue of "Salient" under the above heading by a rather embryonic history stu dent has caused some comment in the College, and we feel on those grounds alone further discussion on the sub ject is merited. Had we been vouch safed as much space as he, there are [unclear: several] of his points we would like to have substantiated, mainly the luck of a suitable curriculum which is evident to all history students [unclear: worth] calling by that name. Even here we considered him rather one-eyed. He indicates the gap of Inaia before 1500. Surely Europe before 1500 is an even more serious gap? He also says, "I do not suggest that a University student should cover the whole history of the world." Why not? Obviously one has to have de tailed study of some periods and not if others, but why on earth, in an attempt to provide a history curri culum of some use should not the whole business be dealt with gener ally, so that the detailed study of this and that may be fitted properly into the perspective of the whole? But the proposal for substituting the present heterogeneous nine-unit sys tem for a genuine history degree in which not only are these gaps filled, but such things as economics, which are essential to history, and political science—not as at present taught divorced from reality and at times from accuracy—compulsorily incor porated, must find its way to this paper at a future date. Our objec tions to the article must take first place now.