Victoria College (now Victoria University of Wellington) was founded in 1897 to mark Queen Victoria's 60th jubilee. Until the opening of the Kelburn building in 1906, classes were taught in rented rooms.
Victoria University
Events In History
22 March 1902
Victoria College’s first professor of modern languages joined the fledgling institution’s four foundation professors.
Biographies
The careers of Sir Robert Stout and Sir Julius Vogel were so closely intertwined that Stout’s governments are usually referred to as Stout-Vogel ministries. Both men started their public lives in Otago and followed similar policies.
Main image: Vietnam War protest, 1967
Victoria University students arriving in Molesworth street after a march from the University to Parliament grounds on 1 August 1967
