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SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1935. Volume 6. Number 4.

Juvenile Bureaucracy

Juvenile Bureaucracy.

For, with the passing of a whole University year will have gone the hampering insubstantial idealisms which accompany the average public school product to the threshold of a University. A perception quickened by the loss of the narrowing conservatisms implied in the Public School tradition will see, not up-to-date body but an administration, which while efficient within the well-defined groove which it has fashioned for its own convenience, is too smug, too obtuse, too querulous, to make it anything more than a form of machinery which requires its motivation from outside and is incapable of independent and original action.

Comparisons, it is said, are odious, and this will be appreciated only too well by the members of our Executive when mention is made of the executive bodies of Otago, Canterbury, and Auckland Universities. For in each of the above instances the administrative body is a positive one, and the measure of effectiveness of each can be gauged by the relative position of the Universities concerned in their respective cities. Surely in a University the logical method through which it affects its environment is through its Executive, and in this one tremendous factor the Victoria College body is and has been for some time, unquestionably a negative one. In what regard has this College been held at various times, by the citizens. As a night-school, as an irresponsible, flagrantly mischievous institution, as an assembly of students having neither decency nor stability merit nor desirability.