SENT DOWN FROM OXFORD

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 15 June 1935, Page 6

SENT DOWN FROM OXFORD

Penalty for Practical Joke Against Principal WOMAN STUDENTS SUFFER (United Frew Association —By BeMrts Teles: Copyright.) LONDON, JuiTe 14. Two undergraduates, Miss Edith ShaAv-Cross and Lady Katherine Cairns, daughter of the Earl of Cairns, have been ‘‘sent down” from Oxford because they allegedly communicated information to the eollego magazine “Isis.” The sensation is a sequel to a practical joke against Miss Julia Mann, principal of Saint Catherine’s College. When she was locked iii a room Miss Maim demanded the hashes of the perpetrators. These were not forthcoming, so Miss Maim banned the Eights Week ball. Subsequently a paragraph was prepared for the “Isis,” proofs of which were submitted to Miss Mann, bxit was not published. The paragraph referred to tlie joke and apologised to the guests invited to the hall. Miss Shaw-Cross, who is the subeditress of tlie “Isis,” xvas first sent down, upon wlxicli Lady Cairns declared she supplied the information. These are the first women undergraduates to be sent down.