SUNDAY TENNIS AT THE UNIVERSITY
TO THE EDITOR
Sir, —That Dunedin, the home of the wily Scot, of the Dominion’s head University. and possessed of a tropical climate in springtime, should also become famed for religious intolerance and bigotry, would indeed be disastrous. Yet such may be its fate if public opinion—so unjustifiably used by the University Council as an excuse for its recent high-handed action —does not support the students of the University in their plea for Sunday tennis. Shall it be said of us that we find it easier to fight for democracy' and freedom against oppression and intolerance on the field of battle, in the air. and on the sea. than we find it to live up to these principles and apply them at home? No, not if I know the spirit of this Edinburgh of the south. —I am, etc.. Hotscotch.
Medical School, Dunedin, October 16.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24431, 17 October 1940, Page 9
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