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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 2. March 19, 1947

Editor's Forum

Editor's Forum

Sir.—

In his tribute to Sir John Rankine Brown. "D.M.S." makes the following statement: "He had begun by being a devotee of Rome and ended with an abiding love of Greece. For myself, I can see no greater indication of intellectual progress than this." I wonder if your contributor would care to give a reasoned explanation of this categorical statement. In particular, I should like to know whether he refers to the Rome of the Scipionic Circle, of Caesar and Cicero, of Augustus, or of the Antonines, and to the Greece of Homer, of Lycurgus, of Pericles, or of Alexander. If he thinks that, from all these and innumerable other phrases, he can extract the quintessence of "national characters," the attempt is certainly interesting, but must be set out at greater length than the sweeping judgment I have quoted.

E. Badian.

Dear Sir.—

While the biased reporting of Salient has long been noted, and in fact, due to the teaching of psychology one would expect it, nevertheless salient news has seldom been omitted.

The last issue does not mention the mountaineering disaster, into which an inquest will have been held by the time this is in print, nor the conference of the Australian Student Labour Federation, which Mr. A. O. McLeod attended, presumably as a NZUSA delegate.

J. R. Jackson.

1. Due to the teaching of English, Salient's biased reporting is usually grammatical, which Mr. Jackson's letter is not.

2. Because of Salient's unusual policy of not publishing reports until the relevant information is available, the report on the mountaineering disaster and the report of the ASLF Conference will not be published until Mr. Evison and Mr. McLeod return to Wellington. Incidentally, Mr. McLeod attended the conference as the delegate of the VUC Socialist Club.

—Ed.