FLOATING UNIVERSITY.

Grey River Argus, 18 June 1927, Page 1 (Supplement)

FLOATING UNIVERSITY.

The floating university, the S.S. Ryndam, which left New York last September on a 33,000-miles world tour with 500 United States students, recently anchored in the Thames, off Greenwich.

At 8 o ’clock in the morning. 490 of the students had left for a one-day “educational tour” of Oxford, Strat-ford-on-Avon, Bradbury, and London, leaving behind ten worn-out young men who from the last port, Leith, “did” Scotland and Ireland in three days, returning to the ship in the Thames.

One of the men said: “This has been.: a wonderful trip, but it has been too fast. We have been up to the West > Coast of America - , across to Honolulu, to Japan, China, India. Java, Ceylon, Egypt, Arabia, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, the Adriatic, Malta, France, Norway, and a lot more places. As a hustle that takes some beating, but as an educational trip it leaves something to be desired. Y r ou can’t hustle round the world and learn things.” The third-class dining room of the Ryndam had been converted into a series of classroms. where the students did six hours’ work a day while they were at sea. They followed the ordin- ' ary curriculum of the universities, and t Muring the 12 days’ voyage across the I Atlantic were to sit for their yearly examinations just as if they were on shore.