Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 5, No. 5. July 2, 1942
Ask Professor Wood
Ask Professor Wood
The statement that no history lecture[unclear: r] dared to come within twenty years of his lecture is a complete inaccuracy. Ask Professor Wood what happened when he dared to set an [unclear: essay] for Stage [unclear: 1] on a [unclear: post-World] War [unclear: 1] topic. There [unclear: arose] a [unclear: bowl] of [unclear: derision.] disgust and dismay, and the cry, "This is not history."
He complains that he never heard any philosophy of history diseased in a [unclear: lecture.] Probably not. You can't make a pattern without any material. To cram philosophies of [unclear: history] down the throats of the un trained and unformed would be [unclear: unprofitable]. Had he progressed to an Honours [unclear: standard] he would have heard them well bandied about.
Finally, for a student who does not [unclear: annear] to be particularly well qualified to do so, to sling [unclear: mud] at one of the most [unclear: progressive] depart ments in the College seems pretty unjustifiable. We suggest that had this student not had the misfortune of an [unclear: early] training in a more southern college and had he [unclear: put] to better use the "ability" of which he makes so much, his statements would not have been so imprecise.
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