WIT AT CAMBRIDGE
"OBSCENITY AN ESSENTIAL"
MAGAZINE DENUNCIATION
(Received November 22, 10 a.m.)
LONDON, November 21,
"The proverbial bargee speaks pulpit prose in comparison with the casual conversation of modern undergraduates," declares a Cambridge University magazine article headed "Mouths of Sucklings."
"The success of undergraduate gatherings depends largely upon obscenity passing for wit," the article states. "You implant seeds of knowledge, reasonably expecting to get the fairest flowers of speech, but instead there is a rank bed of blasphemy and filth. A raconteur wishing to divert his friends must apologise if a story could appear delicate, otherwise the end will be received in silence ty an audience expecting a salacious denouement. To be funny in Cambridge it is essential to be indecent."
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19351122.2.90
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
Word Count
122WIT AT CAMBRIDGE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 125, 22 November 1935, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in