UNDERGRADUATES' CONVERSATION
" OBSCENITY PASSING FOR WU* BITING ATTACK IN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, November 21. (Received November 22, at. 1.30 p.m.)] •“ The proverbial bargee -speaks pulpit pros© in ,comparison, with the casual conversation of modern undergraduates,” declares the Cambridge University magazine, in an article headed * Mouths of Sucklings.’ It says: “ The success- of undergraduate gatherings depends largely upon obscenity passing for wit. You implant the seeds of knowledge, reasonably, expecting to get the fairest flowers of speech. Instead,; the result is a rank bed of ■blasphemy and filth. The raconteur, wishing to divert his friends, must apologise if th« story might appear delicate, otherwise the end is received in silence by an audience expecting a salacious denouement. To he funny in Cambridge it is essential to be indecent.”
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Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 10
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130UNDERGRADUATES' CONVERSATION Evening Star, Issue 22193, 22 November 1935, Page 10
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