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SERVICES LEARN ABOUT POLAR CONDITIONS
TWO YEARS ON
THE
Britain's
By
ICE-CAP
PETER LOVEGROVE
Admund Willis,
10
IS THERE A COLOUR BAR
the
AMONG LONDON'S
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS?
None of the London
Colleges, the SAME
colour prejudier in the Univer- sity is nowhere near as strong as some toyle try Ja maintain,
festutions are dug to oti
the skin.
bridge-table is OU- This article appears as the and that it apparent mani-
NIX main feature in the first causes, ut due to the colour of
cupied every day by same five or
| Nigerian students. in an Issue of the new London
tend 10 57* with Hair byÜ
other, one corner of the University weekly paper, The All overreau students at fist Union Lounge attracts Sonnet. The Editor has given every lunch-hour, mosi
the Indian students is that permission for reproduction,
college. This, must of the
people concerned say, is due
mit it is quite strong London as a whole.
The
countrymen, and wake this a good way to find one's fret on a strange country, it is often very dificultater vn to break away from this group. Leit a fe can bezzane impossible The hundreds of indian students w however, is live in their own
heels an
So are
they ren,
to the colour prejudicem bar is, even they admit, too strong fl word-pre that the student concerned outstanding examples. valent in the University. notice it, and if he is entoured the hundreds from Afriqu on: Most of the British students links he is being ostracised the West Indies who aret nich vehemently deny that any 11 he lo ke eksely, he will prob- other in British Couned or other
hostels The then group to such prejudice exists in isly find some Engilah student gether whenever colleges, though they ad w altr appears to be out gether, and eventually re- d for the Faine turn their homeland without
having
Begruct ang other than ademie, of the This ostracism, where it es, stay overseas. Worse still, they ** to be nure prevaleme with the inviclable be
ile the the English knp to Att fucult cs 1. ther tan themselves,
Une vem Beled The Sete
we; la
turials art projderd again th rather than labs. Arts students. vespetor to develop an unconscious meaibishness which the scientists
du Jut
ACCEPTED
ECONOM
benefis,
GOOD IDEA
"Coloured" is used in the sense non-white, for 11: exact Linge repparently doesn't maiter s much. Those
who complain of Sherm This is strange, shire on
The problem theft. 1 strong prejudicial treatment
to remove prkan pejudice, but is supposed to deal rather how ArI eturEH: aim that it is in fact grades with humanly Man
I get the two t Just mix ogether Union netivitie according to the shude: but
ily to a seientist, ani ita are definitely great help the nuthor has foumi colm be that of
he little Friendship
the
various
In
71{
In si
nothing to substantiate thi. grame-weights, doesn't matter; m
er maraderie.grow fast on the One only needs to Inok a while he is a human being to the
sports feld
or round a bridge Ululon
table. clubs
th Arts
Breaking away or student, to be studied
poss.bir from GLUS colleges or 30 th carefully, Bist externally, and countrymwa-after ell it is only University #self to realise in tal
412 zat, stackove, inteller. For three years e that if a student has the buy Friendsing cannot
Thi oral students might step necessary, ability in a given it then, and # The exterior on
dede a little De oght and eft at
to
field, he is accepted wurm dark, the study often stops there this problem.
#hast
heartedly into
chult and then, His colour does not inituenc the selection; it 13 rarl
though it has no such romantie Sherpas to Queen Louise Land mentioned, though it is in-
"fur al- There are no exprivalents
Nish
winter owing
the mbagestas traching.
RELIEVE ran!
prestige will be much Pole, it is operating within the haured and the lead we nest. Arctic Circle under conditions to have in Palur exploration no less arechinus as regards work will be largely temperature and wrather than other Arefie and Antaretle ex- stored." Admiral of The
peditions have experienced Fleet Sir Algernon
Willis cidentally.
the it i
largest Anid in London when spout. British Polar expedition since ing of the achievements of Scotts
An- and Shackleton's The 25-strans British North tarelle expedition
PL
Greenland Expedition, which returns to the United King. dam in August after I W years' scientifle research in one of the loneliest and coldest spots in the w. rbd.
"The leaders and 1 bers have done fine work
"In
美し 113
OWN CODE
4
the
It is often enough to a repl coloured student mto your
Bip of the melinaten to jolt in show's an The Christians In the colleges make an all-out effort to 'catch the oversons population by being evitably noticed, being :1
unl
tensibly small amount of snowfall, con-physical characteristic. The latties in the University consciously
sympathetic towards them, and ditions are little better. On the When someone says "What seem to have their own code. In often succeed. I might be a
er-cap the show cover makes about that darkie?"
the a University Hall of Residence good idea for athletic and social Tast travelling aster,
Jere
clubs in the colleges to do term is more often de for women,
EL
the Brilish girls hidden crevasses af the chief
|scriptive. identifying snug.
une, group themselves in the dining same thing, and reap benefits,
und Captain Walker told me that rather than contemptuous hall, and all coloured
It is only fir to add--pur- tha snow bridges
these or deprecatory. It is like white - oversUS students are psely at the end and not at the the auther 15 are apt to give way under the saying "Where is ginger. therefore left to group them- begiming-thni this weight of Weasels and sledges head?"
selver These same British girls, ***
himself a brown person, and an If a dog team went through it
engineer in the making. however, would willingly have was not serious as the hürness
too much lu expect that the coloured partners at dances and article will produce any sudden holds them up and they could
But " be tituled out.
attitude. 15ut
other functions, weight
and in fact changes in sour
think op the some try togel non-English if it makes you greater and that the bridge was Greenland
tople or better still, provokes a is a huge Island
"But," I
have the op- hear can
people partners if they to break. They kest
controversy In The Sennci. 1s of mountainoits with a Irtne
Is this a reflection Wensel fee-free land around the coast:
with trailer and a lot of protesting, "this only applies to portunity,
purpose will be served. last autumn the Urgons, What about lectures, on the indies mentality or the otherwise
Ix
completely get my prevasse vast dome of ice to a
Iweight
sea level. Equipment and clothing abave
century
carly
Vast Dome
covered
vere by
Pisos
whitch
their 10,000
of
over
of a Wensej was 10 much
darunge to the people in
2
it.
DIFFERENT
fortunately. without serious and labs, and tutorials?" Here Englishman's romantic oblity?
and deserve well of
has a slightly different situation. The facts are hard to gather, Here people are thrown together four most statements on this mal- Country
for Ther great Protruding through the edge of mutt of value had been learn regardless of their choice, and
of proved very satisfactory, efforts in surmounting all this ice-sheet In the northeast
The one for are opinionated. have to make the most of their difficulties under very is a mountainous land coiled ed.
fact is that undeniable
most lot. The necessary degree of arduous conditions of conn.
coloured students in the Univer- usually aty do not mix with the whites. try and climate"
On View
13
1
Queen Louise Land, and it is here and on the ler-cap to the weat of it that the expedition has been mainly engaged exploring
Kathesing formation of value to various seleners, The expedition has also gained information and 20 experience about living and travelling in the Polar regions tee and this year's British which is of particular value Industries Fair is devoting the Servlets
ย
The Admiral is chairman of the Expedition Commit-
section
of the
Admiral Willis eldest
It will be some time after
the expedition returns before extraversion
12
k1
the scientifle results of its de- present In African or Asiatic Thoy either do not, or are not called studies can be published, people, while it is in Westerners encouraged to, take a full part but the publie will be able to This results
of in the introverts in the life
the college, by themselves, academic, social or athletle.
sce a fine colour flim of those being left out
מס
two years
the Ice-cup.
After possibly before the end of the while the rest start co-operating
in their tutorials
year.
1
"Tho
Olympia exhibition hall to expedition has two bases-ihe At Britannia Lake the work and equipment of Main Base
ut the edge of the lec-cap, and
the expedition, and to the
a small base called "Northice"
British industrial firms high up near the middle of the which supplied it with their widest part of the ice-cap and products, ranging from about 250
the miles from machines and mountainous fringe. aluminium sledges to Arctic
sewing
ale.
The Fighting Services
noted
have
In this
second-in-command
Travelling
J.S. Agar Royal Signals), the North-West const.
recorded is-43
Suiting Your
S
Indo officer
Three senior
"The minimum temperature possess a motor. N.C.OS, A.Q.M.S. A.P. Board-
degrees Fahren-has a suit, and man, S/Sgt. J.W, Oakley and WO. II D. Howard, all of the Britannia Lake
(75 degrees of frost) at business but social the helt
and-82 degrees are made with it. Hoyal Electrical and Mechanical Fahrenheit (114 degrees of Engineers, eight
Pranaven is enerally a
frost) at Northice. And there only possession you
strong wind display in public.
bulli Weasels,
OT
to seminars, CONTO
deep thought, I have
the conclusion
that
Personality
By JAMES WICKENDEN
London.
n
The way the cloth has been cut and the external stitching can be seen, but here again a layman may be misled.
Where was the mistake? your suit an invest- The store was a big one and ment?
the price stift. Savile Row anys "The scientific and surveying good suit should be; it ad-
The man who buys off the played a leading part
a great deal af expedition. The Army supplied work entalls
more peg cannot be blamed. The three officers, Captain J.D. travelling about on the ice-cap vertises personality
of the tailoring Much of the carefully rucked Walker (Royal Engineers), who from East to West this season man buys--even a car.`
is crossing who and one party
itaubtly than anything else intricacies
trade are possibly beyond hand-stitching cn cheaper suits even the manager of the of the "epiv" or Edwardian type during the first year, Captain and coming out near Thule, the G.R. Fletcher (B.E.), and Capt. large American ale base on the The car may be the firm's department, and unknown is mere display and does nothing
Lɔwords keeping the shape. or perhaps you don't to the assistant.
Everyone
and side seams of It is more to the point to The back not only stick to a few safe rules.
Jucket and
of the walating irousers are the most vital lines contacts It's the Cloth is the first esset where skilled work counts.
always tial. Without good material, a suit will never keep shape, however much it has been worked by skilled hands.
Mass-produced suits to of the cloth to the stance of the North) between the last week All suita last, but only the day are too often made wearer, do most to give the right of October and the middle of February,
a light cloth, say "hong" and keep it there. which precludes good suit looks ageless. triuch travel, though members Everyone who buys "off fourteen ounce. It is cheaper In the end, the name of the and taller is the bert guarantes. of the Expedition have got the peg" knows how shaded for the manufacturer
diamaged in the twilight periodis lights and the deft tweak of hard for the buyer to de- That is why that quiet bomb- street, Savile Row. 58 Commander (L) CW. which of course are quite long the assistant can give a tect.
still makes the best there 1 Simpson, of the Royal Navy, during much of the time, willth no provided four other officers and a variety of equip ment and sibres, And without essential air lifts by the RAF' Coastal and Transport Com mands It would not have been possible to get the party on to regions requires a snow surinch Parting with the cash is northern climates,
tractor vehicles which converted by REME for Arctic
were blow which accentuates
the
of the low temperature.
conditions, and a wide range of Then there is no aun in this
winter-weather clothing
Tallons.
The Leader
and
high latitude (78 degrees
The lender of the expedition about
the Greenland lee-cap at all.
Glaciers
"perfect" fit.
from
These, and the careful ironing
Yet nothing less than Although a suit from Savile The quiet, the attention seventeen ounce cloth, say How may cost between 35 and and the soft carpet boost the tailors, should be put 45 guineas, it does what a good
Ease of travel in the Polar! the RONKO of well-being. in an every-day suit in suit should do; it enhances the
Inadequato
gesturo to the occasion.
and this unfortunately is in
almost embarrassing. It. short supply in this part of
the seoma thostly Greeland whlols is one of
dfient regions the
the adre of the country in intarsected withi
leo and in
Civilan membora, universily graduates, consisted of meteorologists, surveyors, gineldinglats, soologista,
Near
man initend of advertising thei auit,
And today, it is whispered in the club, Savile Row will sell on a "convohlant payment" basis, then a weak labor i Most of the rest that goes.
For most of who cannot glactors which are very rough suit begins to sag. The to make a fine suit is unafford, Sevile Now, Litrd) RIO ing gravity and seismic teema, There was; also a panlah Army hummocky
thekrives bulge, and perhaps in noon. The padding for many excellent suburban, tailors officer, whs kat. f life while immer almost impossible to get a month apiky hairs spring example, thu i bey bought, nod rellable off-the-peg shakes. on surveying work un
thout on excent on foot carrying "rom the Roels. The the roady-mader by the tailor-But don't/mounetales taisy Had the necessary ments of existence),
Whilkh waters "Tula is an Arstie expsallión sach, as fente, Round Vestment has turned into a and HER: 18 bé 241461" STOK?
trust Jan-every" "secute of the
word", enoking/evilmentsdg food. liability,
Low than
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NOTE: London University has a larger proportion of coloured sindents than any other British University.
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