THE TERRITORIALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 5

THE TERRITORIALS.

'By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, February 24. Sixty-three members of the Senate of Cambridge University oppose cooperating with Oxford to make conferment of degrees dependent on attaining efficiency in the Territorials or Officers’ Training Corps. SCIENCE AND SOLDIERS. London, February 24. Many university authorities welcome Cambridge’s proposal with modifications. Others object to making degrees dependable on military training. Some suggest to confer certain privileges on those undergoing training. The Daily News says that if a university were authorised by the State to declare that no man should have knowledge unless he became a soldier, it would be blackmail and treason to science. DRAWING-ROOM SOLDIERS. (Per Press Association.) Wellington, February 28. . The twenty-seven Territorials who, refused to cross the Hutt river ouj Friday owing to various excuses,! ranging from foot-soreness to dis-j like of getting wet, as it was raining, j were brought before the “Orderly Room” yesterday and fined, the ringleaders forfeiting a large porcion of their pay for the week’s camp.