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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16841, 22 May 1920, Page 11

The thirst, dor higher education and the inability to find an education contin uo to advance at an unheard-of rato (says the London "DaiJy Mail" of March lGth). Cambridge colleges are already refusing entrances for next- October. At Oxford there aro not tutors, laboratories, or lodgings enough for nearly all who wish to go up. Tho women's colleges are yet more popular. For Somerville or Lady Margaret at Oxford no girl much below scholarship standard can hfipe to_ bo taken; and, unlike some men examiners, the women show no sort of preference for any socalled social or financial recommendations. The most learned only are taken; and some of the less learned do not like the situation at all. The same excess of demand over supply is increasing in preparatory, in nublic. and in secondary schools. Though schools such as Winchester will not put a name on the bcoks more than four years ahead, boys aro in some schools being put down—as they used to be for membership of Lord's —as soon as they are christened. Several day schools, preparatory as well as public, hare increased 50 per ccnt., some 100 per cent., and will now take no boys; and parents have as much difficulty in findiitj: a school ns the visitor to London or Birmingham has in finding an hotel. One undoubted reason for tho seal for education is that homo life has become expensive and difficult. School is almost an economy, and domestic servants usually sniff at places "where children arc kept."