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UNDERGRADUATE COMPLAINT.
"PETTY IMPOSITIONS ON THE THE LAW ABIDING,"
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HOW WE READ.
EXPERIMENTS IN EYE MOVEMENTS.
EFFECT OF AN H, G, WELLS QUOTATION.
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sentatives of English tradition and English charactor," ho anid.
Lord Reading, presiding at s dinner in London to Viscount A series of experiments on the Grey of Fallodon, on his election movement of the eyes in rending, to the presidency of the English Following on the recent restriccarried out by Miss M. D. Vernon speaking Union, said that there tions on undergraduate car owners at the Psychological Laboratory, was something fitting in the elec. {at Cambridge, the Oxford under University of Cambridge, aro de- tion of Lord Grey, particularly In
graduate journal, the "Isis," raises the general question of restrictionscribed in a report inued by the succession to the Earl of Balfour. for both throughout their lives had On the general question of rostric Medical Research Council. tions on the liberty of undergra Misa Vernon points out that it predominant in their minds the duates at Oxford. The "Tale" had been shown by previous work notion that America and our coun- There have been those (nover fra who had studied the movements try should work together in bar. more with ns than in the last few of the eyes in reading that move.mony and the best goodwill. years) who have cried loudly outment from left to right across the "Lord Grey is one of the best re- over, the licence afforded to under. graduates in the particular natter page takes place in a series of of drink and in the general inatter jorks, with a pause, after each of rowdiness. Those critics have a jovement, during which the eye is. certain amount of right on their relatively at rest. But the right side, College authorities especial- ly are rumarkably lax in dealing to left movement from the end of with both Irregularities. Thoy ox one line of print to the beginning tend a licence to them that is on-
the of the next is smooth and regular tirely out of proportion to
The short, jerky, or acondic strict supervision they exercise over private liberty which concerssinovements are very rapid, and the one but the individual. The uration of the pauses during undergraduate inhabitant of lodg inge is forbidden to leave them which the eyes are fixed upon the after ten at night. The owner of print are much, grenter, in fact a car in Oxford must return it be nearly ten times as great. Most ob fore 11 p.m. under the direst
The real bond between us is servors had concluded that no pêr.us. penaltica
ception takes place during move-not anything that is to be found in national origin but in to be found ment. The movements of the eye were recorded by photographing a beam of light reflected from tho corner on a continuously moving
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Ah Liberty!
These disciplinary measures were cant de precautions (which they ere in no sense of the word,, to any effect); they were not mennt as En avowed betrayal of suspicion, which is what they very plainly spoll Private liberty is an easy ery to raise, but it is an easy thing te tamper with, ns the authorities have found, An undergraduate may waste term after term in sheer stupidity while no really effective
Eight of the nine subjects wero university graduates doing resarch work in psychology.
Rath of Reading.
With regard to the rate of read. steps are taken to stop him. Ang when the subject was not at law-abiding student finds himself tending to or was completely un. surrounded with petty impositions interested in the meaning of the which gall nobody but him. They
Lord Gray, responding, said: The name of English-speaking Union is particularly well chosen. It is much better than laying stross on kinship and race. It is precise ly the sections in the United States of British origin that divided from us in history. It is well that we should bear in mind that the memories of history are such as to divide and not to unite
278 most
in the fact that we are both Eng- lishencaking nations.
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"Personal intercourse which ̈à common language enables us to have with citizens of the United States creates individual friend. ship and also creates an under- standing and makes people feel that they have a common ground. thereby creates a feeling of sympathy and union between the two nations which cannot be create ed by any propaganda, but which, when it has been created by per tonal intercourse, no propaganda can destroy.
"I think that these things, mak- ing for greater and greater frequently increased 'in' rate' to-operation between the two nations, In the matter of work the unward the end of the passage. When inspired by the ideal of making dergraduato may consult his per the material aroused a train of world peace more secure. is the sonal tastes in the most astonishing
thought organised within somo greatest possible bond between the Way.
He has liberty to do what strong personal interest, reading two nations, and it is also some work he likes and he can get along was in general stow and irregular thing which is of immense import. with practically no work at
all.
anop for the welfare of the world." He can, with an ample gesture, tention was completely withdrawn with many regressions, unless. nt- postpone or fail his tutorials; he 16 allowed the utmost latitude, Ws from the meaning of the content.
With regard to the effect of the ara not saying that this may not reading one young woman, while contain a certain amount of wis-reading a selection from a lending dom, but is it consistent! The
are no check on bad behaviour, but content, reading was rapid and fe put no premium on comparatively gular with few regressions, and pood conduct.
There are THREE REASONS WHY we have been
motor-car futter at Cambridge his article, said that she had a visual at any rate shown us that we might image of two parrots in a cage, which unde her want to laugh. have a more bitter complaint
There were some interesting critt Liss by several of the readers of a quotation from chapter 4, "Cer- tain Social Relations," from "An ticipations," by H. d. Wells. One subject described it us "a very cum. Lersome and unnecessarily wordly way of saying very obvious things" The attitude of another, a young woman, is described as "snarky, and the report adds, "She wander ed why ever 1 had chosen it." A young, man was unattracted by either the style or content of the passage, but thought the last,san- tence was an extreme anticlimax, and his opinion of the author went down greatly at this sentimental conclusion,
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