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Queen's College the University of Melbourne: A pictorial history 1887–2012 edited by Jennifer Bars, Sophia T. Pavlovski-Ross, and David T. Runia

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December 2013–January 2014, no. 357

Queen's College the University of Melbourne: A pictorial history 1887–2012 edited by Jennifer Bars, Sophia T. Pavlovski-Ross, and David T. Runia

Queen’s College, $70 hb, 320 pp

Queen's College the University of Melbourne: A pictorial history 1887–2012 edited by Jennifer Bars, Sophia T. Pavlovski-Ross, and David T. Runia

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December 2013–January 2014, no. 357

Notwithstanding occasional media focus on misbehaving students or senior members, the residential colleges and halls dotted around or about most Australian university campuses keep a low profile. Their influence has undoubtedly declined since the early twentieth century, when as many as one quarter of Melbourne’s enrolled undergraduate population, and a much higher proportion of full-time students, were attached to Trinity and Janet Clarke Hall, Ormond or Queen’s. But the collegiate ideal to which all these institutions aspire, more or less, still provides a vital alternative to the regrettably prevailing view of higher education as mere vocational training – especially now, when the future viability of universities themselves is called increasingly into question.

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