AUDACITY OF MODERN YOUTH

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 269, 10 August 1938, Page 11

AUDACITY OF MODERN YOUTH

British Undergraduates’ Enterprise (“Dominion” Special Service: By Airmail.) London, July 23. How some of ibis son’s contemporaries at Oxford spent their long vacation was described by Lord Tweedmuir, Gov-ernor-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 purserin 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 jeremiad® about the younger generation; jeremiads which are not deep calling to deep but shallow moaning to shallow. are told that they lack the enterprise, the stamina and tlie 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.”