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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington. Vol. 24, No. 3. 1961

English Association A.G.M

English Association A.G.M.

March 10, 1961

The annual general meeting of the Wellington English Association was held in the staff common room last Thursday.

The only business of the evening was the efection of new officers for the year. Dr. Gordon, head of English Department, was elected patron for the year; with Mr J. Wright president, and Mr A. McLeod secretary. Father McKay and Professor Stevens were elected to stand as members of the association's committee. The outgoing president was Professor Stevens, who had accomplished so much for the association last year; and Mr A. McLeod, Miss M. Martin, last year's members of the committee.

The association had the pleasure of having Dr. D. F. McKenzie as guest speaker for the evening. Dr. McKenzie is a gradute of V.U.W. who went to Cambridge in 1957 as the first holder of the Unilever Scholarship. He has written a study of the Cambridge University Press in the early eighteenth century, and is a fellow of Corpus Christ! College. Cambridge.

Dr. McKenzie spoke on the Cambridge University Press and printing house. His text included examples of early books published by the Cambridge Press. Some of the main points of the subject were that before the nineteenth century very few publishing houses had any records or documents to verify the capacity of the work they were doing; and not until the" Cambridge University Press was established were there any records kept.

The Cambridge Press, when it first started printing, printed books for other publishing houses, booksellers and authors; and not until later on did it start printing for the university proper. Most of the supplies and equipment used were all mported from the Continent, Holland and France being two predominate sources. This fact made the Cambridge Press the best publishing house in England during the eighteenth century.

The evening was friendly and informative, and achieved the association's aim of presenting to its members some aspects of the publishing firms of the early eighteenth century period.

The following dates have been chosen for meetings for the remainder of 1961. All are on Thursdays:—April 13, June 8, July 13, August 10. September 21, October 12.

Members will be informed in later circulars about speakers at these meetings. Subscription for 1961 is 5/-. Payment may be made to the secretary by post—Mr A.' McLeod, 164 Glenmore St., Wellington, W.4., Phone 26-161.