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AUGUST
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If this. University were runt by men under forty instead of mon mostly over sixty,, I am al most certain that complete per- sonal liberty with responsibility would be allowed, and would be very seldom abused,
But there is another aspect to the Cambridge problem which is -loss-pleasant, though no less | significant," and that the econo-
mic aspect. There is no doubt" that at present a large number of
A startling gase focusel public people on whom a University edu attention or Cambridge Unlyer-cation is completely wasted come sity,
up to Cambridge. The best of I came to Cambridge In com- these are practically professional plete ignorance, of the type of athletes the worst, morons or de- social organisation in axistance generates. The standard of the there; T. discovered it gradually. entrance examination 13.30 low and it filled me partly with that almost anyone not a com.. Amusement, partly with alarm.plete, idiot can pass in. And in After four years I feel qualified Cambridge, NO leas than dise to suggest the following explana- where, “money talks," A very tion of its problems, writes Mrs. rich young man, even just a rich J. B. S. Haldane in the Dally young man, САП pretty well News and Chronicle.
achievelet us not use the harsh Cambridge University is over-word buy-the position he wants. whelmingly Conservative in palk-It is almost generally agreed ties
orthodox in religion.that these rich wasters should not and With few exceptions the men in he encouraged. Yet they are. authority are ignorant of and an und will continue to be encour tagonistic to modern thought and aged. The reason is quite simple. |_ modern activities of all but the
Money Must Be Had most conventional kinds. They ale extraordinarily long-lived.
As the new Chancellor, Mr. Dons of eighty and professors of Stanley Baldwin, recently said in ninety are by no means rare. At his inaugural
the speech in concerts in the Gulidhall you may Senate House, the University in see white-haired old ladies in Vle. badly in need of money. The torian shawls and lace sitting money is for the most part well row by sèried row. The "old spent. It is spent on scientific indies" of Cambridge are by no escarch, for example, that ranks confined to the female amongst the highest in the whole world. Cambridge physics and It is a quality
of old age to Cambridge biology are world- dislike change and disturbance as
tamous. Scientifle men of genius such. In a society where the old such as Sir J. J. Thompson. S and elderly are to Boma
Eest Rutherford. Sir Frederick extent forced, in pursuit of their livings, Hopkins, make.'the name of Cam- to have some dealings, with the bridge famous in the scientific very young, their prejudices be- circles of every civilised country, come triple-barred. In order to But well-equipped a.m.understand, rather than
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AUGUST
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MONDAY,
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Shanghai, Japan, Canada, USA.,
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swallow to rule laboratories
sums. These sums have to be got from somewhere. If Cambridge were to refuse to admit rich men and the sons of rich men, where would the money What would become of all those fat legacies that now so pleasantly swell University and College offers? They would undoubtedly o elsewhere. In matters financial individual done are one and all simple - minded, high-principled men. They would not dream on cadging to serve their own ends. The fact that they chose academic rather than business or political careers clearly testifies to their contempt for personal enrichment. But the onrichment of their
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"They were invented in Queen Elizabeth's time," said Mr. Knowall. "Yes; but they weren't discovered the twentieth century," com- mented another.
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Father: Peggy, I want you to reasonable hour-not with the milk come home from the party at a
man.
He won't be there."
Peggy But, father, how absurd!
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these very young men, they would have to make a tremendous men tal effort to keep pace with the temes, to feel sympathetically the general and individual problems Aug. 1, 5 p.m.nf youth in our day. But most Registration.Aug. 2. 8.45 am. people over fifty find such a task
.9.30. a.m. impossible:
'well-paid, comfort- Lbly-off old 'dons consider It 10 a.m.
superfluous. 4.30 p.m. It is obvious that the ordinary of twenty-one or twenty-two does not go about with a loaded revolver in his pocket. The average young man of to-day wants as much amuse ment and as little responsibility he can achieve. This is as frue of the really intelligent, who get "first" in their triposes, as of organisation is another matter ex-On demand (Due Victoria, B.C., Aug. 22.) those who do no work at all and
That is why the sons of Parcels ...Aug. 4, 11 m. get "ploughed." Young men
at rich men are welcome to Cam- Registration.
.11.15 a.m.
Cambridge, exactly like young bridge-more so than the sons of ...Noon. men everywhere elso... have to poor, men, unless one or two of the Noon.
make fools of themselves up to a
latter happen to be of such out- 3 p.m.
certain point. Most of them are standing intellectual ability that not unwilling to work in modera- some other place will get the tion. But, work or no work, they benefit of their remarkable talents are determined to have their fun. unless Cambridge gets them first. That, after all, is human nature.
President McKinley
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AUGUST
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Letters
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Treated Like Children. Now how do the authorities cater for this quite justifiable de- will shortly begin.
The Long Vacation term During this period. all undergraduates graduates in residence must go into college. They are not allow
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"YOU'RE FROM MELBOURNE."
3 Obviously a magnate, I thought; maybe one of those retired generals who are occasionally be
Registration.Aug. 5, 4.15 p.m.ed to live in lodgings. The Proc-held in evening dress dripping with
AUGUST
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Tjikarang
Kum Sang
Parcela
Letters
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5 p.m. 6 p.m.
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fur does not patrol the streets, miniature medals from the Adam's But everyone must be in college apple to the instap. I wove him by 10 p.m. This means that during into a series of Sctionary fabrics in which he was always passion- the Anest period of the year, in a
leas and indomitable; but at the country where fine weather is rare enough, goodness knows, a lot of end of seven days, during which he had taken no more notice of me Aug. G, Neon. vigorous adult young men are
commanded to be behind college than he did of the commas in his walls almost before dark. All it Times, I began to exult. : means in practice, of course, is, Surely, I said to myself, this is that they are driven to climb the man I want to know, over, the walls instead of walking Unable to hold down my eurlo in at the gates. Those who make slty longer, on the eighth day-1 such regulations are simply ask-was. Incidentally, on the point of ing to have them violated,
departing for another address-I I absolutely disagree with the turned to him and herofcally ven demands I have seen made in the tured the inquiry: Preas that college discipline "Surely you are one of those should be tightened up. Anyone strong and aflant Britons I have conversant with the · problem come so far to see?! knows that the only way to make His rock-like face broke inte a young man behave like a man fragments and amazingly reassem and not a child is to treat hini bled, rearranged in a smile of wiat
Empress of Japan (Due Vancouver, B.C., Aug. 22 and Europe via Siberia.) Parcels
.Aug. 6, 5 p.m. Registration.Aug. 7, 9.15 am. 10 a.m.
FRIDAY, Swatow and. via
Letters AUGUST 8.
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Manila
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