KING OF GREECE TAKES PART IN DEBATE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6808, 11 January 1929, Page 5

KING OF GREECE TAKES PART IN DEBATE

King George of Greece took part in a debate at the Oxford Union Society (England) during November. He moved the motion: “That, this House prefers an athletic to an aesthetic education.” „ King George, whose visit was informal, was the guest of Mr. F. .Stopford Brooke, president of the Union. He dealt with his subject in a scries of epigrams. Here are some of them. The world is already too full of bookworms and blue stockings, long-haired men and short-haired women. I instietively distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me the man of brawn and sinew rather than the man who loses his cyc-sight in tho laboratory, or the man who studies invertebrates until he is without backbone. Nothing more distinguishes English citizens than their independence at b«*ie and their effrontery and check abroad. There might have been no great war in Europe if the nations had learned to play with balls of leather instead of balls of lead.' The growth of games on the Continent is a happy augury for peace.