GIRLS "SENT DOWN."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 140, 15 June 1935, Page 9

GIRLS "SENT DOWN."

Sequel to Practical Joke at Oxford. FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. LONDON, June 14. Two undergraduates, Miss Edith ShawCross and Lady Katherine Cairns, daughter of Earl Cairns, have been sent down from Oxford University because of an allegation that they communicated information to the undergraduates' journal, "Isis." The sensation is a sequel to a practical joke against Miss Julia Mann, principal of St. Hilda's Hall, the Ladies' College, when she was locked in a room. Miss Mann demanded the names of the perpetrators. These were not forthcoming so Miss Mann banned the Eights Week Ball. Subsequently a paragraph was prepared for the "Isis," proofs of which were submitted to Miss Mann, but it was- not published. This paragraph referred to the joke and apologised to the quests who had been invited to the ball." Miss Shaw-Cross, who was subeditress of the "Isis" was first "sent down." Thereupon Lady Cairns declared that she had supplied the information. These are the first girl undergraduates to be "sent down" from Oxford.

WOULD BE WELCOMED.

BRITISH VISIT TO GERMANY. BERLIN, June 14. In connection with the proposed visit of members of the British Legion to Germany, General von der Goltz has telegraphed to the Prince of "Wales as follows: —"The officers of the old Army welcome in a comradely spirit the projected visit of Jiritish front fighters."