NO REAL MEANING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 4, 5 January 1934, Page 12

NO REAL MEANING.

RADICAL RESOLUTIONS.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY TO-DAY.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Thursday. Radical resolutions sometimes passed by the Oxford Union, such as refusing to fight for King and country, have no real meaning in the opinion of Dr. A. E. W. Hazel, K.C., former principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who arrived at Wellington this evening by the M&taroa from London. "The union does not represent the ■whole of the university," said Dr. Hazel. "I am afraid the resolutions have had rather a bad effect on similar bodies." There was much more advanced thought, both at Cambridge and Oxford, than there used to be, said Dr. Hazel. "I was regarded as a great extremist in my day," he said. Dr. Hazel attributed the change partly to altering the personnel of the universities by the elaborate system of bursaries and scholarships, which meant that the institutions were getting a large proportion of what one called the "working classes." Oxford and Cambridge were no longer for the rich and well-born exclusively. Dr. Hazel set ont on his present trip around the world for health reasons. He is recuperating after an operation, and expects to remain in New Zealand for a month or six weeks. He then intends to go to Australia and South Africa. Dr. Hazel had been principal of Jesus College for more than eight years, until last summer, when he gave up the position because of illness. He was reader of English Law to the University of Oxford, and before accepting office as principal, he was reader in Constitutional Law to the Inns of Court. He was a member of the Lord Chancellor's committee on legal education, presided over by Lord Aitkin. Dr. Hazel had been mostly concerned with the academic side of law, although in former years he was in practice on the Oxford circuit. Travelling with Dr. Hazel are the Rev. L. B. Cross, fallow and chaplain of Jesus College, and Mrs. Cross. They are on a pleasure trip.