THE UNIVERSITY SPIRIT
Nothing could better assist th; move--ment to convert the University into an association of large -cchnical colleges full of hustling certificate-hunters than the absence of such a university spirit .as is being fostered by the tournaments. 'Hie best of university life is not in its ■ degrees and the knowledge that men and women seek in it ; the University’s highest function is to encourage a love of learning for its own sake, and to bring its children to realise that money i.s-not the only coin in life, and noisy energy not the soundest evidence of real vitality. By making their membership of the University a vivid fact to the students, the annual tournament is doing fine work. So long as the scattered students are thus annually • brought into contact with each other, _so long, will there be reason to hope that the university tradition is safe from de- • cav.—The ‘‘.Dominion.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2484, 24 April 1909, Page 7
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152THE UNIVERSITY SPIRIT Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2484, 24 April 1909, Page 7
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