The Days of a Man 1907 



southeast corner of Queensland, on a fine river which 

 takes its rise in the great tropical forests of the north, 

 where eucalyptus largely gives place to leguminous 

 trees valued as lumber. 



In my discourse, I suggested that the institution be 

 called "the University of Queensland" after the 

 great state which supports it, although, according to 

 British custom, establishments of higher learning 

 generally bear the name of the town in which they 

 are located. My suggestion was received in good part, 

 Essentials and, I believe, finally accepted. Some slight objec- 

 t j on was m ade, however, one argument being that 

 because of Queensland's immense extent, an area 

 larger than the whole of Great Britain, it should have 

 another university at Charters Towers in the north, so 

 that students might not be obliged to go all the way 

 to Brisbane to be examined for degrees. But the plea 

 took no account of probably inferior instruction, the 

 personality of the teacher being potentially the 

 weightiest element in education, besides the lack of 

 adequate libraries so far away from centers of popula- 

 tion. It rested, moreover, on the conception that the 

 university exists to grant recognition to worthy men 

 and women rather than to teach them. This raises 

 the distinction, often noted in British educational dis- 

 cussions, between " teaching " and "examining uni- 

 versities," a matter to which I shall subsequently 

 refer. 



At the Queensland Museum I met Ogilby, its 

 curator of fishes, an enthusiastic ichthyologist en- 

 gaged in studying a rich local fauna then very little 

 known. To him I brought the flying fish I had caught 

 on the wing near Walpole Island, and when we found 

 it to be new, called it Cypselurus ogilbyi. 

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