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EVERYWHERE

The Hat Trick.

Let it not be supposed that, because they lived in the days before the leg-theory was con-i |ceived, our cricketing forefathers

were entirely without guile.

MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1933.

THE "DECADENCE”

OF OXFORD

CAUSES OF DOWNFALL

INTELLECTUAL ́ ́SUPREMACY

CHALLENGED

(By A.A.B.).

A copy of the "Laws of the

Several newspapers of repute the sons of the great families. Most Noble Game of Cricket as have thought fit to publish and Realisation of a Changing World revised by the Club at St. Mary-discuss the fact that after a lively Balliol had gutted the House, le-bone," published in 1809, has debate the Oxford Union carried and the Master, with his squeaky by 275 votes to 153 a motion "that voice and round face, and cold recently been found,

this House will in TO circum- commemorative eye, had stolen the In order to remedy what must'stances fight for its King and gilded youth from the Dean. Per- obviously have been a notable country," and that 51 members had haps, too, the upper classes were failed to catch the President's eye. beginning to realise-they have à abuse, the revised laws decree I do not follow the example of wonderful gift of intelligent anti- that if any Person stops the those newspapers for the purpose cipation-that the world Was Ball with his Hat, the ball is to of conjecturing whether the Em-changing for their sons, who might of the conceivably be called upon at some be considered as dead, and the pire could aland the loss

military service of these 275 more or less distant date to com opposite Party to add five Notches undergraduates or how far they pete with intellectuals. "Not bred to their acore"-a penalty, one represent the University. In our kennel," to repeat the coarse will agréo, not one whit too suspect that upon analysis half the phrase which a Whig peer applied majority would turn out to be to Gladstone. The Russells, the severe for so heinous an offence. foreigners and half "non-ascripts." L Leveson-Gowers, Charterises, Fitz-

We have moved a long way! But the wider question interests maurices. Wallops, Portals, Cur since cricket was regarded not me: by what combination of cir-zons, and Brúdricks, who would it been possible have naturally proceeded in the only as an idle and profitless cumstances bas

during the present century to previous generation from Eton to pastime, but as a crime.

tumble the Queen of Romance from Christ Church, now matriculated A statute of Edward IV. in- the pedestal where she was placed at Balliol, and were told they must cluded cricket in the list of by the beautiful apostrophe of Mat-read for Honours. Such is an out- criminal offences on the ground thew Arnold in the last century, line of Oxford in the nineties, that its growing popularity was and where she stood serene until which continued practically un- proving detrimental to the prae- the war? The "adorable dreamer" changed until 1914. tic of archery, on which the de- would now seem to be a maunder-

In those days I do not hesitate was so ing old witch, whispering from her to say that such a piece of school- fence of the kingdom

towers not "the last enchantments boy ribaldry as was carried largely dependent.

was

last of the Middle Age" but the rinsinga week would not have been allowed A fine of £10 and two years' imprisonment

how they of a League of Nations debate at by the Union authorities to be put

Geneva, or the latest cant from the fon the agenda. con-made the punishment fit the

ap-crime, and it was not until 1748 London School of Economics, or The Three Causes of the Downfall. It is not amiss, and certainly not that cricket was played without the cackling echo of some anony-

mous twaddle from the B.B.C.7 uninteresting to the historian, to danger of the judgment.

Such a fall, such a tumbling in the endeavour to explain the causes mire of a once adorable figure by which have brought about this ignoble hands must surely be trace-grievous downfall, intellectual, able by however unworthy a pen. moral, and religious, which has A Movement That Died Quickly overtaken one of our most famous All effiorescence of the intellect institutions. I ascribe it to the

Tractarian movement died down

account of political assassination. the point worth weighing No

Your Daily Smile.

JUST LIKE EVE,

Mrs. Newlywed was not so well

over

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which has usually been doned, and at times actually plauded, by those parties which call themselves "advanced." It has certainly been very frequent- ly perpetrated, sometimes for private reasons; more often off De Quincey's famous essay on late for political. And what has "Murder as a Fine Art" took no all this accomplished? That is off as she would have liked to be, seems doomed to a short life. The confluence of three causes:

and she had been thinking things

(1) The young men who ought quickly enough after New-man's to have filled the courts and col- Yet the practice of killing, or at-political system has ever been "Oh, darling!" she said. "Eve cession, and-was-followed by Teres of Oxford in the second ite tempting to kill, kings and other seriously threatened by the "re-

moval" of an individual. Let the must have had a wonderful time period of stagnation and inquiry-cade of the century were most of But before I pass to the intellec-them killed in the war. Britain rulers is as old as history itself. fanatics of Nihilism or any other compared with women of today.” Edward VII, summed the matter cult destroy whom they will, husband. "I don't see

"Why, deares£?” returned her tual revival that succeeded I must has marvellous resources, intellec-

that you notice the contemporaneous socialitual and moral, greater than any,

But Eng- up when he said, referring to an king or president, a successor is hare much to complain about change which was coming over the other civilised country. attempt on his own life, "It is much the same when, as more husband, and, as you

immediately found. It is pretty we've got a garden; you've got a University. The leaders of the two land cannot expect to fill up all at said just movements, which were insepara-once the places of such young men one of the risks of my profes-rarely happens, the blow is dealt now, you've got nothing to wear."ble, were

Benjamin Jowett, Aras Ruperi Brooke, the Grenfells, sion." England's record, how from the Right against some

thur Stanley, and, among the Lister, and Raymond Asquith. We Charlotte Corday's

KILLING THE GOOSE.

younger men, Matthew Arnold. The jare only just beginning to realise ever, has been much freer from demagogue.

killing of Maral did not end theị

Master of Balliol was the guide, that this loss Was the heaviest such occurrencer than that of Terror nor did the wounding by

"I see the jury acquitted the girl philosopher and friend of Sir Ro-price we paid for the War. Some countries. It was Kaplan of Lenin, though it may who killed her employer, on the bert Morier and Lord Lansdowne, of the young men who survived the of Lords Oxford, Milner and Cur-war resumed the braken thread of long taken for granted in radical have shortened his life, do any-grounds of insanity.

"Yes, and quite right, too. Any-zon, and of a great many editors their University career; but it was circles that attacks on the mem- thing to weaken his rule. There

is, in fact, something in human body who kills an employer these whose lot is to bear the cross of not the same thing, and they were bers of royal families and on nature which refuses to give way days is certainly crazy."

anonymity. Jowett's influence was, supplemented by Rhodes scholars, their principal supporters were before such tactics, but tends

therefore, pervasive, and extended and

various young men unperceived beyond the walls of different parts of the Empire, to- the fruits of monarchist "oppres rather to meet them more stiffly. sion," and that nothing of the refusal on the part of natural

that hideous building, a cross be-gether with several engineers and History knows nothing of any PATIENT: And who are you?

The tradition was STRANGER: I am the new super-tween a barracks, a workhouse and young soldiers. sort need be expected under pure successors, dynastic or constitu- intendent of this asylum.

n mordern convent, which covers gone, the mould was broken, and PATIENT: AL, you'll soon pet nearly the whole of one side of the it in apparently not to be quickly the murders of Lincoln and Gar-gerous post, made vacant for them over that: Why, I was Alexander Broad, almost smothering graceful replaced.

by the most violent means. But the Great when I first came here.

ittle Trinity.

(Continued on Page 7.) field did little to shake this be- what does surprise (and this is lief, for the former was slain in the second point which presenta

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a crazy office-seeker. But the cial leniency is to be claimed ined from duty, sister republic, France, realised regard to any crime that can be with one car. through the assassination of her called "political." There arc President, Sadi Carnot, in 1804, many amazing conclusions

which this doctrine leads up, and that forces were at work hostile one is that the lives of repre- to the existence of all forms of sentative statesmen are to be

to

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The Passing of More Spacious

· Times.

from

government whatsoever; and this rated more cheaply than the life the golfer. "Why we've only playing the abolition of gentlemen and Kowloon for England

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NO EXCUSE.

In 1874 the intellectual suprem- JURYMAN: I desire to be excus-

acy of Balitol was unquestionable. as I can only hear it was in a class by itself. After it came four reading colleges of JUDGE: Oh, you'll do. We only much distinction, Corpus, New, hear one side of the case at a time. College, University and St. John's,

Christ Church, since the spaciousf UP TO PAR

Captain A. L. Burton, berthing times of Harry Chaplin and Walter)

of the Hong Kong "You want to stop now?" said Long were passed, was still mourn-officer

Wharf and

Go- Co.. left Commoners, with their golden tas-down was at last brought home to the of the humblest member of so-ed five holes."

retirement yesterday by the ciety. Such hair-splitting is be- It was her first day at golf and sels, and withdrew in haughty se-jon

current Hakozaki Maru. He was accom- United States when, in 1901, yond reasoning. Wanton damage she said: "Well, the pro told me clusion from the common

"The House" panied by his wife and daughter. McKinley was struck down on no to life or property should always that the par for the round was 76 of university life.

Prior to his departure, "Capt. al-turned its back on the river, and other pretext than that of avow-be punished, no matter whose and I've played that number

absolutely ignored the Union. Cric-Burton was presented with a hand- ed anarchism. The outrage was the life or property may be. We ready!"

would make no distinction. But

ket it did play and cards, within some chiming clock and was also the recipient of a smoker's silver cabinet precisely of the kind for which if anyone insists that there

DO IT AGAIN.

the seclusion of Bullingdon. later schools of sedition have should be a difference made, then

the company. HUBBY: Here is $5, Dear. Don't. In my day Christ Church was in given by the European Members of

its transition period, and coined the cant phrase, "Pro-it should be in the direction of

Mr. Wong Sik-cheong, compradore paganda by deed." The latest punishing "political crimes, not you think I deserve a little applause neither flesh, nor fowl, nor good

red herring. It did not mix with of the company presented Captain more lightly, but more heavily for giving it to you without being attempt, that made last month than any other. Very often a asked for it!

WIFE: Applause! Why, darling, and lead "the young barbarians all Burton with an engraved silver against the President-elect, Mr. private crime is committed under

at play" like Brasenose and Mag-cigarette I think you deserve an encore!

dalen; it had ceased to be high- Franklin Roosevelt, belonged to great personal provocation, and

born and was not yet high or even; the sume category of crime. human nature sympathises with

mezzo braw. All this in changed such cases, even though it can-

the The assailant's main statement not approve. A political offender,

now, for I remember that, to 'Varsity Eight of 1920 Christ to the police, "I kill all Presidents however, cannot plead that any

Church contributed nearly half Motor-Cycle Accident. and I kill "all officers," had the private grudge has inflamed his simple and authentic note. It feelings. As a rule, he is careful bones in its neck as a girafe.

to explain that it has not, as this could not be bettered as an ex- Zingara has done. He has ob- A shrew mouse cats more position of the anarchist creed viously less excuse than the three times its own weight of insects in practice. Contemplating this criminal who seeks revenge after in twenty-four hours.

As for public whale subject dispassionately, severe wrong,

policy, it will plainly be a sorry

Facts You Did Not Know.

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TWO RUSSIANS INJURED.

But at the time of which I am Two local Russian residents Mr. than speaking the Cardinal's hat and Karkovitch and Mr. Shulkoff, one in the of whom was driving a motor blazer wers seldom seen street-men, wore blazers not bags, cyclé and the other riding pillion, and also cap and gown untorn in were Injured, on Saturday night, of a collision in Cobra venom is harmless if swal-the Bigh-and I cannot remember as the result two main considerations arise. day when we let it go forth that lowed.

anyone at the House who was any Waterloo Road, Kowloon, with a body except Vicary Gibbs. and Tom car driven by Dr. Y. B. Ng, of the The first is the sheer futility of crime and aggression are to be such murders, no matter how considered lesa culpable if, to The smallest effective camera in Legh (Lord Newton). The eclipse Kwong Wah Hospital.

Mr. Shalkoff, was thrown heav!- Justified, in certain cases, they their ordinarily odious qualities, the world is the size of a thumb

bey, which ought always to be the ly on his head and is now at the they add injury to the State and all.

first college in Oxford, was the Kowloon Hospital suffering from may at first sight appear to be danger to leading men. All cant

Mr. Karkovitch re- Take regicide as the most fami- is logical, and sentimental cant Fifty facial muscles are contract work of Jowett, who had routed concussion.

"Ithe stately Liddell in the fight for ceived only minor injuries. ed when a person frowns. llar of past examples, a practice' most of all.

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