1937-12-27 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 21, 1937.

AGELESS FACE OF OXFORD

FERNAL, changeless Oxford, has fore being sold to whatever multiple Nuffield himself.

the last seven years chang- store at present graces it,,

The Munificent Nuffield

he opportunity to study econ

A fact not generally appreciated mics has made the Modern Greats by the public is that the new college course the most popular school in ed beneath the surface more than

will be a home of research peopled the University Politics appear to any place I have seen in England. It must be emphasised that the

by dons; it will not be a habitat for be the most absorbing interest of undergraduates. It will be, as it all: with the undergraduate popula- change is beneath the surface. Ox

were, another All Souls for indus- tion markedly leaning towards the ford turns the same serene, ancient,

When such facts are digested it trial leaders with a taste for re- Left in political thought... yet ageless face on the world as ever; a walk through the golden- might appear that this home of in search, rather than another Keble The October Club, the University grey streets to-day is substantially recent learning has nothing to learn for undergraduates with a predilec- Communist organisation, was for a-

while closed by proctorial orders, but the same as a walk through the from commerce, but in truth no news tion for industry- same streets seven years ago; and of Oxford has such world-wife im- Lord Numeld's seven-figure mmi- shortly after its reopening was dis- perhaps the same as it was, and will portance to-day as the latest mam ficence (reminiscent of the Ameri- banded, that the Communists in re- be, three centuries since and hence moth bequest of Lord Nuffield. I can University founded on tobacco) sidence might join the University There are slight changes, of visited the site of the college that has obscured another recent gift to Labour Club. At the moment the Not many Labour Club is unquestionably the course. From Blackwell's shop is to be built with an endowment of the town of Oxford.

Parks Road a million pounds to study the pro: weeks before he decided to enlarge most popular club in the University. to the corner of there is an ugly. gaping blem of bridging the gulf between and transform the University he and in this merger the Communist hole as shocking as the sudden gap pure academic training and applied presented £300,000 to the joint Hos- element is easily predominant. The in the front teeth of a beloved face. industrial activity to the benefit of pitals Board which controls all the president of the club is a Communist. be hospitals in Oxford. With this How far the average inexperienced The old houses have come down to the nation. The college is to

reason undergraduate knows what he is make way for the new Bodleian built in New Road, beside the Canal benefaction the board has building, which, a disgruntled don and not far from the old Castle and indeed to boast that it promotes talking about when he advocates informed me, will tone with nothing Gaol No doubt that is a site as emphatically the most successful Communist doctrine, and how far and ought to be far off in the fast- near to the centre of Oxford as even voluntary scheme for financing hos- he would preach it if he know what nesses of the Banbury Road, any- a Nuffield can obtain; as a graduate pitals in England; I do not know he was talking about, these are other of Worcester College which used to another town which can point to matters. The facts remain that in

as Botany such another volunteer. But the disappearance of ancient be irreverently known buildings, not of an academic nature, Bay I would be the last to suggest

way.

is as old as the departure of the that it is unduly distant from Car Changed Students

With the changing world it is ap- propmate that one should find it is

in

the main Oxford's undergraduate population is markedly Left thought, and that that population's all-absorbing interest of the moment is current politics.

thirteenth century Roebuck Hotel to fax.

Lord Nuffield bought the site a make way for a shop where every-

It was significant that the day I thing that costs, sixpence or less is year ago Mr. Charles Fenby, the sold to increase millionfold the pub- editor of Oxford's daily paper, told the youth of Oxford who have chang- arrived in Oxford the chairman of heity value of the Countess Hang- me that he had asked him why at

as ever. The undergraduates of nounced that undergraduates would witz Reventlov. There are multiple the time, and Lord Nuffield had told ed; its antiquity remains as young the University Peace Council an a impose a voluntary boycott of Ja- stores all down the now rubber-pav him that he could not think of a to-day go to the University in ed Cornmarket. Each site harbours immediate purpose for it. He had more soleman frame of mind and panese goods, while the first shop I a ghost of ancient Oxford; and the at the time some idea of transform- with more serious motives than ever have seen in England exhibiting pos-

their never ing it into a public park The new distinguished lovers of the eternal town

"predeces- ters declaring that no Japanese mer- chandise was on sale was the first living cease to bemoan the fact. The col college will be completed, Lord Nuf-

University is less of shop I saw in Oxford. To be sure, leges probably bemoan the changes field hopes, within five years. The The less; each ghost, each site belonged world assumes that it will be named a social springboard into life than it was a bookshop, and Japanese to an Oxford College and was duly after its founder. That is by no ever it was. To be possessed of books are not a conspicuous feature hawked throughout the market be- means certain, according to Lord mere wealth, or conversely, to be of the average library, but from the deeply in debt, is no longer a social belligerent pacificism it displayed its asset; extravagance will win you few owner might be imagined to be re- friendships in Oxford to-day.. gretting he did not habitually sell

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The present generation is precoci- matches or silk shirts.". cusly serious-minded, sedate beyond

its years. "Rags" are undreamed Oxford Marches On

of, sport is tolerated rather than

passionately embraced as the very Another symptom of the serious- motive of existence. Social and mindedness of modern Oxford-in political questions of the day are this case one might fairly affirm that uppermost in the minds of all. (Continued on Page 9),

THE

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WORLD GOES BY

By "ULYSSES?

teacher of deportment com-know less than nothing about nap- plains that many people don't pies. But the University of Cali- Iknow what to do with their hands. formia shows no such shrinkage

Bridge players agree.

"Nothing is lost by politeness, may be a very wise saying, but how Jabout your seat on the Ferry?

from the Facts of Life.

Babies cry mostly, the University of California insists, during the first four montha Then suddenly, for another four months, there is a restful hush,

Finding their form again at the It is suggested that the speed end of this period, babies blossom limit for a motorist should be re-lout once more for twelve months of duced for every offence he com-glorious song.

mits. At that rate several drivers It is towards the end of this third we know would have soon to go in period that they begin to see some-

reverse:

thing of their fathers, and the sight sobers the little intes up to No one can say that the Univer-such an extent that they pipe sity of California, în America, is down almost altogether." not doing its best to further the There isn't total sum of human knowledge with think of why its recently published report on bridge should “When Babies Cry” “

cample. This is a thing that Oxford has with Courses never attempted and Cambridge parenthood. wouldn't understand,

It is pretty ludier

rther,

оп

that will

The old-fashioned English Uni-a Bachelor of Arts, versities rigidly exclude father than nothing of the craft from the curriculum, holding be required of you when you are no that this should always be a post longer a bachelor graduate diversion like earning a living, paying your bills, etc.

What is the good of going to a University and learning how to Men go down from Oxford with hold your beer, and yet having no rilliant Firsts to their name, who idea of how to hold the baby?