SHAW SATIRICAL.
Oxford And Cambridge Should Be Razed. EVILS OF UNIVERSITIES. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 15. Mr. Bernard Shaw at Plymouth, when openi'n"- the residential hostel which Lord and Lady Astor have presented to the local "University College, advocated razing Oxford and Cambridge to the <round and sowing the foundations with salt. Several public schools, generally regarded as nurseries for Oxford and Cambridge might shai e the same fate unless it was preferred to use them as asvlums for the mentally defective. The older universities should be replaced by local universities, whose loss of the Oxford and Cambridge tone would be an outstanding virtue for, centuries. University education made decent government impossible.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 7
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118SHAW SATIRICAL. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 7
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