A Bad PART about The Spring is that it's not good for YOUR EYES... That's Cause the DAY- LIGHT Stays on TOO LONG & YOU CAN'T SEE THO Telivishun too good
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1960.
March
Raw
JACKY'S DIARY & JACKY Mendelsoh Coming
i Can Tell that Spring is coming
On A COUNT of Yesterday Seen a Robin Red Dressep
Age 321⁄2
Any How March is the /Month That Spring Starts! Thats WHY there's a Saving which says that it comes IN Like A Lion, & GOES out Like a Lamp
On Other Thing In The Spring is You gotra Help Your Daddy IRRITATE the Soil & also PLANT We gitables in the GARDEN,
Click
also the SPRing is When all your Xmas. presents are either Lost or Busted..OR else they don't fit You Any more,
And WORSE even
Later on You gotta Ear Them.
FROM Antida
March Going OUT
© 1980 KIM FAZUTES Judicato Fac, World NOTERMENEd.
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BUT WURST of all, you gotta START into TAKE a Bath Every DAY, WEATHER YOU NEED it
or not.
BRITAIN NEEDS SCIENTISTS—YET
UNIVERSITY TREATS THEM AS
This Oxford cult
FOR
FOR Mr Harold Macmillan it was a special moment. Even those blase, wearily drooping eyelids felt a flicker of boyish excitement.
But the excitement had nothing to do with politics. Beneath a shabby Oxford dome rang out the cultured command: "lte, petite dominum Cancellarium." ("Go and get the Chancellor.")
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That was the cue for the most dramatic entry in Mr Macmillan's career.
In a huge and fusty robe [of gold lace and velvet ho shuffled proudly into view to be installed as Chancellor of Oxford University last week.
A menace?
When Prime Minister can
could
ruin us
by
ROBERT PITMAN
them
СЦЕ In-
take such pride in an Oxford scientists. On honour, how natural that dependence and prosperity ordinary people should
react utterly depend. Coustantly Lord with awe to the mere sound of Halishum and other Ministers Oxford's name.
hemoan the fact that even now
Whats
the remedy? To
3-20
OUR LEADING
ECCENTRICS
PS:
What's i dont on?
But otherwize SPRING is my
FAVORIT Season!
Know
YOUR Friend,
Jacky.
Apartheid Express
OXFORD MEN ONLY
change Oxford? To crum those mellow cloistera with science undergraduates, “ą turn the can we make them pre-emlâènt ualversity Into an annexe of in the university world? Harwell and 1.C.I.?
I do not think so. And I do
1 am
It is one of the ironies of has received
be
but
NEWS IN THE AIR
FAST PLANES WORRY AIRLINES
By JAMES STUART
| IRCRAFT volentists 'all over ♫ the world are trying to' End the answers to the problems of Hying airliners at three times the speed ··sound...=1,880 m.pb,
at high altitudes.
Such an aircraft would bring the flying thine between London and New York to around two hours, allowing for climbing and descending,
But do the airliner want this? Cortainly they are not ready for 11 yes. It is as much as they can do to cope with the 000 mph of the new jet age.
Listen to one of the airlines" best-known experts, 33-year-old Canadian-born Beverley Shen- stone. He is chief engineer of British European Airways.
In
Conservative
น
neomt paper to
the
Society of Automotive Engineers in New York Shenatone said that | Mach 3 (three times sound) was not chosen by the airlines, and he had not found an girling engineer who wanted 11.
Successful airlines had so far increased speeds by not more then 30-40 per cent at a time with new alveraft.
"How are we, the airlines, lo swallow at one, gulp, a, 350 per cent increase in speed and, in | achieving it, deal with the prob- lems of fundamental naturé in structures, aerodynamics, opera tion and air traffle control with- out going broke?" Shenstone asked.
He added, palmedly: bluntly, nonsense."""
"It 19.
He suggested the next step was a 40 per cent increase in speed to about 840 m.ph.
--(London Express Servisa),
RED-BRICK |UNIVERSITY
CHAPS
Cummings
an all-important time? Or supposing, that Gov- enment Ministers, who tell us our desperate Bamchow it proclaims: This 5o often about
shortage of scientists, them- young min
educated was where the
Duke of Windsor selves gave an example? was an undergraduate, where
Soon Mr Macmillan's own teenage
marguises and baro-
grandsons will be of University nets sifil cluster. By com
age. It was understandable parison-simply because it is
enough that Mr Macmillan hum- a more democratic university self was nervous in giving his has lost Latin speech last week at Ox-
this democratie aze that Oxford rubbing of aristocratic gilt. has retained the social cachet WE SHOULD END the Ôx- which the public schools are ford eult among university rapidly losing. No employer not say that merely because teachers. Every Inducement, of will insist today that applicants
ab Oxford
graduate calory and stolus, should be for important jobs must myself: bresume
offered to make the vesi men public school boys. That would I have
be regarded Oxford remain at the other universities.
as nostalgic wish to nen
Impossibly snobbish and outdated. remain the
romantic, impractical place that it WE SHOULD END the Ox- ford cult in the schools. At always was,
the moment the alm of every
Baime
To bring Oxford into the new head master is to build up *
Open Sesame
even Cambridge prestige in recent years.
ford,
A difference
in
Is it possible that the selence But the word "Oxford" is and engineering departments of ns all, it
is reasoned, scholarship be given something of that to boys from grammar schools con Oxford lustre?
But what a difference it might
status make to university get to Oxord.
Certainly it is possible. Sup Britain it he then proceeded to Yet at heart everyone knows posing, for instance, young encourage his grandsons to 2 ABOVE ALL the Oxford that "BA. (Oxon)" 19 more Prince Charles opted
for a enoose Liverpool or Durham cult must be ended among than an academic qualideation, science course at a provincial university Instead. employers and parents,
In a mysterious, indirect way it university in six or seven years
How natural that the aver-
we are 0,000 scientists short, age would not necessarlly impressive list of successful ex- age parent should feel a sudden Yet what is Oxford doing to improve the new age. It would pupils at Oxford, But Britain's will an Open Sesame. After the provincial universitles could twinge of joy when head that front line? In all other certainly destroy Oxford and future will remain in perii For Oxford is long as the boys who got master says: "Your boy has it
university matters it is Oxford for little gain.
centre in him to get to Oxford."
It- of provincial universities are that
gives the lead When not well sited as
technology.
garded merely as also-rans. Yet is it good for Britain that Government money is handed Oxford
million, Oxford 'should
such out by the have
Great Industrial cities such as stands at the head of the queue. glamour and such status?
Glasgow, Liverpool, Durham, Oxford's undergraduates get are far more sultable. But how ford education is perhaps the the biggest Government grants.
Or is it possible that Ox-
biggest existing menace to
Britain's future?
At first sight such
may seem absurd
Questions
Look at the Prime Minister Jimself, it may be said. He is an Oxford man. So is Mr Gait- skel, the Leader of the Oppasi- tion.
Front line
As for the bright young M.F.s, if they are graduates of any university at áll, it is usually of Oxford. And the same is traze of the bright young men in the Civil Service, in Industry, aven in television.
How-it will be asked-can an institution which has pro duced all that talenst for Britain possibly be a menace?
In reply it could be argued that such young men did not become proinising because of Their Oxford education, but that Oxford accepted them because they were promising already,
Little gain
From the sixth forms Oxford creams off the brightest young men and women.
The promise of an Oxford job
the brings
most ambitious teachers scrambling from other universities.
Yet what is the end-product of all thin concentration oj money and brains so far as British acience is concerned?
The disturbing answer is that less than a third of Oxford's undergraduates are studying science or engineering.
And even those Low Bre virtually cut off from the life of the rest of the university; while the science dong who teach them are still treated as umleblo but curious outsiders by their colleagues at college high tables.
"Ah, what are you mysterious chaps up to now?" they will be aukcu patronisingly whenever the newspaper headlines Dre black with news about the latest apace research,
Yet, even if we agree that Oxford is something more than a gilded employment agency, even it it has indeed' s.ayed the What dangerous objeet essential part in producing such lesson for the parents of the talent, is it really the kind of boys and girls of the grammar Ialent that Britain needs for and technieni acticolo where survival today?
Britain's Cuture lea.
The leaders to tako nccount of the fact that
There have been lines in the past when the future of these Islands depended on its trained archers for Agincourt; on is trolned Unvnl
They can hardly be expected
Russia-for every 50,000,000 of out her population is turning
It
ve Umes as many selentlets a the whole of Britain. For these parents the meannge of current officere for success in Britain is clear.
is: "Don't let your young people tako to science. 12 they woal to Today the men in the front shine at Britain's leading uni»
our university-trained versity,"
: Trafalgar.
Une are
-(Londan Exprese Service).
"I only asked her what the Tanchers' Union could teach her about the preparation for marriage and motherhood that I couldn't."
London Express Bervice.
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