“NO TIME FOR VAMPING”

Evening Star, Issue 20686, 8 January 1931, Page 1

“NO TIME FOR VAMPING”

’VARSITY STUDENTS REASSURE THEIR PARENTS Suggestions _ that undergraduates at the universities are distracted from their work bv the increasing number of women students arc discountenanced, hut the opinion of many parents and the fact that at-Cambridge women students arc restricted to 500 point to tho possibility of truth in the idea (writes a special correspondent of the ‘Sunday Despatch’). The views of Air T. C. Fitzpatrick, the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, are very definite. '“ 1 should prefer’ a woman’s university,” bo said, but since there is not one wo must all do our part,; and I consider that at Cambridge wo have quite as many as wo ought to be expected to take, the suggestion that the girls divert undeigraduates from their work does not bold good at Cambridge. “1 will ':.av this: lam rather glad wc have not' a-s many girl students as at Oxford, where I estimate there are three times as many. _ Such numbers mean that the universitj' is Hooded—tho streets are Hooded and the lectures Hooded with women students.” At Oxford the question is not, taken so seriously. “There are hundreds of women students both at Oxford anil Cambridge,” said Air F. W. Pern her, the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. “As to their being a distraction, it is such a small point that we busy ourselves with more important, matters.’' Undergraduates, on the other hand, are in accord on the subject. Both at Oxford and Cambridge the genera! view is that “ undergraduottes ” have not enough attraction to make them a distraction. 1 4 Tho women students, said a Cambridge undergraduate, “work sf> bard thaU they have no time for vamping us from o.ur work.” An Oxford undergraduate said that women who would be likely to distract him from bis work were not members of (lie university, undergraduettes being looked upon for the most part with more toleration, , ‘‘Our parents have nothing to leaf, lie added “It is well known that beauty and brains do not go together.;’