ACADEMIC UNREST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 9 September 1937, Page 9

ACADEMIC UNREST

CRITICS OF THE SOCIAL REGIME [By Air Mail —From Our Own Correspondent] LONDON, 19th August, Critics of the social regime at our older universities have returned vigorous. L; to the attack. Despite the indignation expressed by many Oxford and Cambridge dons, there are obviously critics within their own citadels. One proposal seriously put forward is that motor-cars should he absolutely prohibited to >.ll undergraduates. It is contended that the facilities those afford tend to emphasis* that unrest which is the bane of postwar youth, to destroy former academic community life, and to encourage hectic habits. Perhaps these criticisms apply only to a small proportion of wealthier students, who are the victims of their parents’ short-sighted indulgence. But ir is true even at Oxford and Cambridge that evil communications • corrupt good manners, and these old academic centres are now faced by a developing rivalry in London’s new university equipment as well as by {.lie growing prestige of the hard-working provincial universities. 1 have known many parents who deliberately insisted on their sons choosing one of the latter, for just these reasons, in preference to cither the Isis or the Cam. Personal experience suggests that they may he wise.