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The Spike or Victoria University College Review 1933

The Comments of Half-Shot

page 63

The Comments of Half-Shot

Discussion and debate are the emetics of University education. An emetic dispenses with the necessity of digestion.

Debate: "The objects of the S.C.M. are contrary to the true spirit of University education." Bibliolatry versus Universitiolatry. One bible verses many.

This is the golden age of Universitianity, when teachers preach, professors dictate, and students are illuminated.

Institutions issue out of the experience of the people. Criticism of institutions issues out of the armchairs of the University.

"Unfettered freedom of speech" is a glorious assertion of the right to be pleonastic.

Synonyms of "Unfettered" are unchained, un-bridled, unmuzzled—all very suggestive words. Legfree should be added to cover contingencies.

Unfettered freedom of speech justifies a counterclaim of unfettered freedom of action. The parrot got out of its cage and was eaten by the cat.

Should an audience be allowed unfettered freedom of speech when it doesn't want to listen to something it has heard ad' nauseam? Of course not.

The motion "that Victoria College has degenerated" is a bouquet to former students who took up teaching.

The late Victorians look at the early Victorians and think that Victorianism is out of date.

The Thermal Thirties talk of the "Naughty Nineties."

Philosophers are people that burrow under-ground in order to reach the surface.

The psychologist contemplates the fragments of his analyses and murmurs "Ecce homo."

A student fixes his point of view in his first or second year and when he becomes a professor never departs from it.

A professor regards his subject as of the first importance and marvels at the incomprehensible tripe his colleagues teach.

The University reveals the secrets of the Universe but never the secrets of the University.

The tragedy of the University is that the specialist must sell himself to his subject.

When bottled, the waters of the Pierian spring are very gassy. The "twist" in University education is in the corkscrew used by the student.

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