CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND THE WAR.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15250, 22 April 1915, Page 8

CANTERBURY COLLEGE AND THE WAR.

JO IHE EDITOR OF ''THE PRESS." Sir,—lf your corresponde&*fc Mr W. W. Simmers will read 'the account in to-day's "Press" of. Mr Asquith's speech in the House about the Oxford and Cambridge students, perhaps he will realise thai, the interruption of a university career is not important to Eng-lishmen-when their country needs them. Mr Asquith says that nearly all tbe -physically fit undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge have joined the Officers' Training Corps, that athletic pursuits are practically suspended, that the under-" graduates have volunteered for active service, in many cases at great cost,to themselves, their careers, and their future. This, unfortunately, does not seem.to be the spirit of the Students' Association of Canterbury College as represented by Mr Simmers. Fortunately it has "been the spirit of many members of'the College who have sacrificed their careers and gone-to the defence of their country. Let us hope that the example of the British universities will stimulate tho Canterbury College student to be less anxious about his university .course, less cautious in offering bis 6ervices,to his country —more British, in fact.—Yours, etc., ''-'■■.' A FORMER. WOMAN STUDENT. April 21st. * .■-