BOAT RACE NIGHT

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 171, 15 April 1933, Page 5

BOAT RACE NIGHT

Quietening Students’ Revels (Reuter —Special to “The Dominion.") London, Feb. 21. The Cambridge University Boat Club are to hold an official ball in the West End of London on Boat Race Night (April 1), and the Cambridge University Boat Club are to hold a ball (also in the West End) on the night of the Oxford and Cambridge sports on March IS. Well, you may say, what of it? The point is. this: It is understood that these dances are being arranged to provide undergraduates with somewhere to go after the sporting events. It is intended to prevent “scenes” in the West End theatres due to the high spirits of students with nowhere particular to go but anxious to “let off Steam.” All this is a long cry from the days when there was a Vine Street Club at Cambridge which only admitted men who had spent a night in a London

police station on one of these festive occasions. For a really good, hearty “rag.” however, you cannot beat the students in the colleges of London’s great but scattered university. King’s College, in the Strand. Ims just had a “rag,” when Mr. Walter Hannington, organiser of the national unemployed workers’ movement, went to the college to address a meeting arranged by the Socialist Society there. There was a great deal of noise, the platform was rushed, a tussle followed, and finally Mr. Hanningtou fled into the Strand. When records of “rags” are set down in print they always sound most formidable. Usually, however, the utmost good humour prevails. When Sir Oswald Mosley, as leader of the new party, went to speak at a meeting at King's College, there was terrific pandemonium. Sir Oswald remained in the best of good humour, and was not at all put out by the clamorous heckling. At the end of the meeting lie announced that he had thoroughly enjoyed himself, and would come to the college and speak again if they wanted him to. Sir Oswald’s stock went up a g(jo£ many points among the students tnht day.