BAGGING OUT OF FAVOUR

Taranaki Daily News, 15 January 1931, Page 5

BAGGING OUT OF FAVOUR

SERIOUSNESS AT CAMBRIDGE.

Cambridge/ is quite as serious as Oxford—and not merely in looks. I heaid this assertion made with emphasi 0 hand,: writes the Daily. Mails special correspondent, who recen y * ited Cambridge to discover whether Lol oxkrd Alon, in ness, a reference to which was made pondent' signing himself Cantab cently wrote to the Daily Mai . “At Cambridge a very similar sta e affairs exists. There is a perceptible [ack of ragging and boisterousness which is very unusual at the beginning o term I should like to point out that Cambridge has brain as well although the former is not forced in front of the public eye as much as the U Mr/L. J. Gamlin, pre’sident of the Cambridge Union Society, said that Cambridge was undoubtedly quite as seriously minded as Oxford and as fully determined to work hard and ‘ get down trade depression in the country,” he said, “is partly for this new seriousness at Cambrid o e. This depression is reflected in the fac that people here have very they realise that they.have got to work hard if they wish to remain here It is no longer enough to be ex ceptionally good at games. Everybody him to take life much more seriously than was the case a year or two a o. “There are,” lie continued, two rea ions for the lack of ‘rags : one is that Cambridge undergraduates aie becom ing more sensible, and the other is in°Cambridge we are inclined ? ' ragging:and all nonsense with distaste, because of the ridiculous behaviour people in the provincial universities, bu I feel I must say it. “It is sheer nonsense for people gay that Cambridge thinks more of brawn than of brains. Cambridge today is quite as brainy as Oxfoid. it more hard-working, more sobei\and .. more intelligent that it has ever been. the big questions of the j, v and takes a lively interest in all tliat is going on in the world. To-day fully 75 per cent, of the university population of Cambridge is really well «At the eame time Cambridge?,esvO* “Yet at the same time Cambridge retains its imagination and its sense o humour It i°s not afraid to have enthusiasm, and does not <onsidei J hound to be bored, as Oxford does.