“A CHAIR OF GOOD MANNERS."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 147, 14 August 1911, Page 8

“A CHAIR OF GOOD MANNERS."

At the Liverpool City Council on Juno 7th the Finance Committee recommended that the customary' annual grant of £IO,OOO be renewed to the University of Liverpool, £IOOO to be devoted to scholarships for children of city ratepayers and the assistance of undergraduates and post-graduates and the payment and remission of foes. Mr ivawliuson asked whether something could not be spent in founding at the University a chair of good manners and common sense. Ho complained of the bad manners and rowdy behaviour of the undergraduates at degree ceremonies, describing the students as “blithering idiots.” Mr Alsnp, as representing the University, said ho regretted, with all the Council of the University, the behaviour of the students, although it must he remembered that it was a tradition of university life to allow the students a little license on such occasions, and Liverpool was not so bad as some of the Scottish universities, for instance. Kowdver, he had a very groat reason for hope that as the result of moral suasion the scandals of tiro past would not occur again. Eventually the council passed the grant as recommended.