"LEFT US GASPING"

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 189, 12 August 1938, Page 14

"LEFT US GASPING"

CHAMPION OF YOUTH. UNDERGRAD DECK HANDS. LORD TWEEDSMUIR'S OPINION. (Special—By Air Mail.) LONDON, July 23. How £ome of his son's contemporaries at Oxford spent their long vacation was described by Lord Tweedsmuir, Gover-nor-General of Canada, when he was installed as Chancellor of Edinburgh University this week. He made inquiries, he said, and found: — One was a deck-hand in a Hull trawler in the White Sea; another was working at the Canadian harvest; one was a purser in a South American liner; another was helping Welsh miners to cultivate ( the land; and another was engaged in trading old rifles in the Arctic for walrus ivory. The new'chancellor warmly defended modern youth. He said: "I hear to-day from many quarters foolish jeremiads about the younger generation; jeremiads which are not deep calling to deep, but shallow moaning to shallow. We are told that they lack the enterprise, the stamina and the fortitude of their fathers. That I believe to be wholly untrue. "I have always regarded my own undergraduate generation as vigorous and enterprising, but it seems to me that the present generation has -a physical audacity which would have left us gasping."