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A train babind schedule, travelling at high speed and an auto that skiddad, supplied the alaments for the tragedy grimly pictured bere, the shattered fragments of the car still entangled with the engins pilot and ite saven occupants dead. The crash occurred In Flarvey, Ill, when a limited on the Grand Trunk railway, operated by the Canadian National, struck the auto, carrying Illinois relief employees to work, at a grade crossing.

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UNIVERSITY SNOBBERY DIES HARD

BY "AN OLD STAGER"

Interest in the famous "I'm Alone" case, which found legal supervision of United States authori- ties challenged by one of the British dominions revived as Canada pressed her claims to $300,000 from the United States Government. During the American Government's warfare on illicit liquor smuggling, a constguard cutter purived, fired upon, and zank the Canadian ram-runner, I'm Alone, off the coast of Louisiana The Canadian government has obtained damages for what they maintain was a breach of International regulations. Layout shows, Top, the I'm Alóna's crow, with Captain Randa?! - seated in centre. Left, the rum-runner, I'm Alune. Below, the U.S. constguard cutter which figured In the sinking of the boat.

INTELLECTUAL HITLERISM

ables.

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cusmos. London will come into its such suburban affectations as these. own then, but I trust will do Some shrewd observers may even with becoming modesty, and within the North, the West, and the imagine they detect, at many of these less senile but certainly not out setting up any solo exclusive Midlande they realise that Oxford UITE an impassioned wrangle has broken out be-less emciens country untrue, intellectual righteousness. It will and Cambridge have no more mono- centration, somewhat less flippant republic, with no class distinctions, athletic prowess. But London is tween members of what are called "the older uni-more earnest spirit of studious con- remember that learning is a true poly of culture than they have of this Kingdom, and hence the per- versities." The precise casus belli is nothing more altruis-standards, and no less healthy de-no social castes, and no untouch the administrative headquarters of tic than the proportion of high ecclesiastical and judicialvotion to mens ens in corpore sane. posts held by each. A Cambridge person started the But these thriving and progressive. Maybe the Oxford and Cambridge petuation of the Old Blun fetish.

It is incredible, to anyone who younger universities constitute a fetish has aboriginal traits. It is trouble by making bitter complaint that so many bishops democratic republic of learning, an erresting coincidence, though it

Oxford and Cambridge affect an may, of course, be nothing more, has not seen it in smooth operation are now Oxford men.

exclusive autocracy. It is a sort of that blue, whether light or dark, at close quarters, what a close trade! two union that fetish really is. I bave

be from the spolia opima between them? Intellectual, and still more social, should be the colour of the The prompt retort came

older universities. That, it will Oxford that far too many of our Theirs the fatness of the land ap-Hitlerism.

By some curious form of atavistic remembered by students of Caesar's heard Oxford men assert, when off existing Judges hailed from "theparently, by some divine right of place called Cambridge." On this honry pretension, and the rest of hypnosis the patent geographical improving, commentaries, was also guard and in expansive mood, that was the battle fained. It has us, on a basis of mere merit, may fact is ignored that both Oxford the shade of woad adopted by the the main advantage of having been up at Oxford is the economic and and Cambridge happen to be, also Ancient Britons. developed into an academic affray struggle for the outer huskal

In effect that does not unfairly "provincial" seats of learning. In

We have Mr. Shaw's distinguish-social "pull" it gives in after- reminiscent, in its argumentative symptoms, of those rather crude state the traditional attitude of spite of that fact these two uni-

A MERE SUPERSTITION demonstrations held at the West most Oxford and Cambridge people. veralties contrive to maintain with cd authority, in one of his best life. End of London on rugger or bont And it is astonishing, if one looks unruffled audacity the Nazistic at-plays, for the fact that an

No one grudges either Oxford or accepted hall-mark of all respect- race nights, and not inappropriate around and attentively lakes official titude that only Old Blues need obtrusive shade of blue was the ly called "a rag." Its tone may be census, how large a share of all the apply.

Let us be just, however, even to ablo Ancient Britona. Even to this Cambridge its place in the sun. in part conveyed by stating that very best posts in this country,, and one argument hurled against the even in the British Dominions over-these "older universities." They present period a majority of res-One gratefully recognises their con- Light Blue University by its Dark seas, they do possess. The Oxford are glad to welcome on occasion, in pectable middle-class Englishmen tribulion to our national life in Blue rivals is that Cambridge must and Cambridge fetish is deep-n purely professorial capacity, Illus- still habitually wear suits of blue many phases, particularly in the our blood. The fact that Oxford's somebody exploded the widespread They not expect to have the bishops as rooted and all-pervading. Whether trious teachers who have the mis-sorge. The wood has entered into past. But it is really time that

it is a vacant judgeship or bishoprio fortune to bo "outsiders." well as the boat ráce.

The academic fur is still briskly or a place in the England rugger need their inspiration. But so far colour is a darker shade than that illusion that they are the only Human culure and mortal enter flying. Meanwhile, graduates of team or cricket eloven, an importas all outside mundane preferments of Cambridge no doubt explains pebbles on the academic beach.

a and appointments are concerned, why Oxonians take at best other universities, such as London ant Whitehall appointment or

Oxford "bags" and the well-known B.B.C. accent. and those now flourishing in several comfortable colonial governorship, these should be strictly reserved for condescending vlow of "the place prise do not begin or end with great modern provincial cities, may the virtual assumption always re- gradultos of the approved Nordic called Cambridge."

PERPETUATING A FETISH

can There are experts who well follow this internecine affray mains, other things being anything strain.

THE REPUBLIC OF LEARNING

over tho with

tinctured. by like equal. that either somebody

Nowhere is the Oxford and excel Cambridge evon amusement

from Oxford or somebody from

Evon London University, whose Cambridge cult more firmly

em-Putney-Mortlake reach. The ablest amazement.

Cambridge must get it.

conceded £ AN OLD MONOPOLY

status bedded than in London. Snobbish-graduates from these venerable . Yet anybody intimately acquaint- degrees are How long is the essential and in-ed with other universities in this neither Oxford nor Cambridge cas nesa achieves its top note in the cider universities usually make grained snobbery of the British country, whether London's famous challenge, is socially and economical average. Cockney. That is why, on claim to no such exclusive virtue as mentality going to tolerate and endowment or those in great pro-ly cold-shouldered. We do not get boat race day, crowds of Londoners the Old Blue fetish implies. But even complacently condole this re-vincial cities, knows perfectly well any furious newspaper controversy sport either Oxford or Cambridge amongst the general mediocre ruck markable assumption by the other that neither the Isis nor the Cam over the proportion of good jobs favours, indiscriminately before the of both universities there is a quite actual race, but those of the win- Intolerable disposition to imagine universities" that Oxford and has any monopoly either of scholar- monopolised by London men.

Perhaps here, however, academic Cambridge should.coolly divide all ship or a wider culture.

Nemesis is already on the trail ofning boat after the result has been that, at the Creation, Oxford and

known.

Cambridge were compounded of the Old Blues. When its magni-

This will be found, on judicial completed, and London University knows what the colours of London

Nobody sports examination, to be a mere super- becomes the great residential scat Univeralty are.

a

ficent new university buildings are Not one Cockney in a million some special blue clay.

of scholarship it ought to be, even Guy's or Bart's colours after the stition. But, as this controversy honry antiquity may not suffice to hospital rugger cup has been lost over the loaves and fishes shows, prevent Oxford and Cambridge find- and won. The sturdier air of for Old Blues it is a particularly ing their true love! In the academic country cities is not infected by useful one.

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