FEUD HEALED.
GREAT 'VARSITIES.
Centuries of Bitterness Wiped
Out at Village Pump.
OXFORD V. CAMBRIDGE,
(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 24. Four young men, wearing silk hats and morning coats, laid their hands on the village pump at Sherington, Buckinghamshire, to-day and took a Latin oath to heal a feud of centuries. They are the editors of the four leading university papers in Oxford and Cambridge, and include Mr. Michael Asquith, grandson of the late Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
All had previously encouraged the policy of bitter inter-'Varsity antagonism, and they had now declared an entent cordialc in accordance with the pacifism of the present undergraduates.
A Dove of Peace, actually a racing pigeon borrowed from a college servant, was released and then the reconciled editors adjourned to the village inn at Sherington, midway between Oxford and Cambridge.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 47, 25 February 1935, Page 7
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