LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 150, 14 March 1918, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

* THE UNIVERSITY COLLEGES AND THE WAR Sir,—Our university colleges have suffered severely during the past three years. Every man of military age, who i is not .physically unfit, is already on i active service or in camp under training, j As it is of the utmost importance that ■ tho undergraduates who are not yet of ; military age should have nn opportun-! ity afforded them of developing their per- j sonality, a movement is on foot, in cer- | tain university circles, to claim e.xemp- j tion for such students as are approach-1 ing their twentieth year, and have, dur- j ing the past three years (while their seniors hsivebeen in the trenches), shown i the value arid mettle of their personality I in the football field and at college | dances. It is felt that unless a consider- j able number of those young men are ; retained at our university colleges, there I must be an end, very shortly, to all real i cultural influences and esprit do corps in i those institutions. ■ . ! The graduates' associations of aome of 1 our university colleges are interesting j themselves in the matter, and an effort i is to be made to induce the Rhodes | scholar selectors to reserve their Ehodes i Scholarships in future for candidates of the type referred to.—l am, etc., PATRIOT.