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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 15, No. 3. March 20, 1952

Wider Horizons

Wider Horizons

Lower Ivory towers can confidently be predicted—

One of the chief aims of a humane education, it has been well said, is to enable the student to see the life of a society in a given period—its literature, art, politics, law, economics and philosophy—as a coherent whole.

This year the Historical Society will sponsor a series of talks with this object in view, for it is felt that the "broad degree" taught in units leaves room for some liaison work between subjects. The talks, given by specialists outside the immediate field of history, will cover various aspects of the social background to European history. They may Include. French literature and society under Louis XTV, International Law in the later Middle Ages, and literature in post-Restoration England.

The breadth of the field should help many students, not only of history but of law, science and the other humanities to see their own studies in a fuller context of life and thought, or at least to stimulate them to help themselves.

Meetings will be held on the last Thursday of every month and the programme for the year can be obtained from Prof. Wood or from W. B. Harland.