ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21716, 3 February 1934, Page 13

ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES

MORE SERIOUS STUDENTS SCIENCE AND AGRICULTURE A more serious attitude toward study in the English universities was described yesterday by Professor F. P. Worley, of Auckland University College, who returned by the Ruahine from a year's leave abroad. Since his last visit to England some years ago tho difficult financial conditions had reduced the large number of students who went to such universities as Oxford and Cambridge for social reasons. To-day there were many students from the State secondary schools. Professor Worley spent three months working in tho chemical section of the science schools at Cambridge, and also visited the other universities. All over England he found a great demand for higher education, and the universities were filled with eager students. While at Cambridge he visited tho fine research station of Imperial Chemical Industries, where many problems in agricultural science were being investigated, notably those of manures and crops. He also saw much of the many lines of research being conducted by the School of Agriculture at Cambridge, where, among other investigations, are those into the problems of refrigeration of foodstuffs. He paid visits to industrial concerns of all kinds, including those for the hydrogenation of coal. Speaking of the condition of agriculture in Britain, Professor Worley said much of the old conservative attitude had disappeared since his last visit, and farmers all over the country were seeking to benefit from the great volume of research work being done on their behalf. Particularly noticeable was the effort to grow all classes of foodstuffs under more intensive systems, and he thought the English farmer was striving to make much more of dairy farming. In the south of England there had been a remarkable change to a prosperous' condition of the countryside, and he saw a great number of beautiful farms.