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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 12, No. 6, June 24th, 1949.

The Art Units

The Art Units.

The five art units are designed, it is said, to provide a cultural background to the Course. It is proposed to consider this cultural background, but if their actual purpose is to hold students until, they are sufficiently mature to commence the study of law, then it is time that the units were abolished altogether since it is a penalty upon sudents who may be mature enough already.

Latin is a compulsory art unit but the remainder of the units are optional. The cultural background which is supposed to be a necessity for a law student cannot be any more necessary than for the commerce and science student where the same dangers are inherent but ignored. Students are unwilling to dilly dally in the Arts faculty and they therefore chose those subjects which will delay them least.