POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 9 November 1909, Page 2

POLITICS.

Those whose tastes run in the direction of social and political life will probably find plenty of opportunities of indulgingthem. Anyone may join the University Union, with its budding statesmen and fierce political debates; arid other literary and debating societies aboundThen there are a couple of clubs of. which the Rhodes scholars furnish .host of the members — the Amercan arid the_ Colonial Club. The latter holds -debates at intervals on matters of high importance, and settles offhand Imperial Federation said other such affairs of weight. These arranged the. meeting adjourn, and the members are_ psrhapß stopped by the proctors on their way home and fined for the heinous offence of being out without cap and_ gown. As a rule, a man who spends throe years in Oxford lives for two years in his rooms in college, and during the last in lodgings in the town. But as a matter of fact, quite half his time is probably spent out of Oxford. There are three nominally they count as four) University terms of about eight weeks each ; r there is a summer vacation of about 16: weeks, and shorter ones of six weeks at Christmas afld Easier. On the. average^ there is, perhaps,, more solid readipg n the vacations than - in " ti)e terms.. The log vacation gives good opport'uni--ties for book work, by reading . parties, and other methods^ as "well as travelling';' to those who can afford it. Vacationtutorships are also, somewhat sought'for, but the occupations often pursued during' he corresponding period by American students,. -book canvassing, .'harvesting.; etc., would hardly be "the thing," anc?; it might be hard to find an Oxford paral-lel-to the Toronto undergraduate who spent his vacation at the Muskoko-Lakes — catching frog 3 for the New Yrk mar. ket.