STUDENT POLITICS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 21, 25 January 1924, Page 7

STUDENT POLITICS.

1 LATEST OXFORD RAG. FREE TRADE IN BANANAS. LONDOX, December 12. Far from being aloof from the real world in a calm of aristocrat hauteur , Oxford now reacts to every extreme of economic and political movement. The ' election was eagerly seized on as an occasion for a rag, and the Martyr's ! MolSunent was the scene of a meeeting, the central figure of which was Dr. B. Vir Bludski, an alleged candidate for Parliament. In traditional 'Varsity j style this visitor was met by a group of \ students all bewhiskered, who greeted I him in alleged Jjatin, and presented their ' revolutionary Bolshevik visitor with an ] authentic copy of their Jjatin oration. These votaries at the Beaver shrine escorted Dr. Bludski to the meeting, which, owing to a welcome revolutionary practice, did not comprise speeches. jln time the crowd dispersed, 'but not ; before they had been put in possession jof the candidate's programme. This ;comprised among its items: — I The abolition of plus fours and other capitalist institutions. Instant execution of proctors and other counter-revolutionary malefactors. Magdalen College to be painted red. Establishment of a vodka fountain lin the centre of the city. I Removal of unemployment by the j abolition of employment. Suppression of education. Lethal chamber for all life members of the Union. Free trade in bananas.