OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 January 1934, Page 2

OXFORD & CAMBRIDGE

MORE DEMOCRATIC ERA. [PEE PEESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, January 4. Radical resolutions are sometimes passed at the Oxford Union, such as that refusing to fight for King and Country. These have no real meaning, in the opinion of Dr A. E. W. Hazel, K.C., the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, who arrived here this evening by the Mataroa. “The Oxford Union does not represent the whole of the University,” he said. “1 am afraid that its resolutions have had rather a. bad. effect on similar bodies,” Dr Hazel continued. “The Pacifists are at present making a great noise. There is much moi e ad vanced thought both at Cambirdge and Oxford than there used to be. I was regarded as a great exti emist in my day.” Dr Hazel attributed this change partly to the altering of the personnel of the Universities. There was an elaborate system of bursaries and scholarships now in being. Ilns meant that the institutions were getting a large proportion of what one called the working classes. Oxford and Cambridge no longer were for the rich and the well-born exclusively. Dr Hazel .has set out on his present trip around the world for health reasons. He is recuperating after an operation. He expects to remain in New Zealand for a month or six weeks. He then intends to go on to Australia and South Africa. He has been Principal of Jesus College for more than eight years, until last summer, when he gave up the position because of illness. He was a Reader in English Law at the University of Oxford, and before accepting the office of Principal, he was a reader of the Constitutional to Inns of Court. He was a member of the Lord Chancellors Committee on Legal Education, presided over by Lord Atkin. Dr Hazel has been mostly concerned with the academic side of law, though in former years, he was in practice on the Oxford circuit, and for some time acted as Crown Counsel. Travelling with Dr Hazel are the Rev. B. L. Cross, Fellow and Chaplain of Jesus College, and Mrs Cross. They are on a pleasure trip.