SEE LIFE BEFORE OXFORD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20932, 11 January 1938, Page 5

SEE LIFE BEFORE OXFORD

A HINT BY MASTER OF BALLIOL Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor, Mr A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol, would have students spend a year getting experience of practical life between leaving school and entering the University. In Convocation Mr Lindsay referred to the effect of the present state of the world on the minds of the young particularly the more sensitive, and said:. “If our young men could be given a y ar’s experience of practical life between leaving school and coming up to the University I think the strain on them would be less and they would appreciate the University life more.” He wished that a conference of University tutors and schoolmasters would consider the possibilities of such a proposal. The Master of Balliol also made a plea for the old to try to understand the young before criticising them. . e old. he said, must imagine themselves growing up in a world full of . rs and rumours of wars, being assured on all sides that a world war -.■.as imminent and knowing that if that war came they would be thrown 1 the ft -nace. They must ask themselves if they could then, easily and unmoved, settle down for three or four years to a leisured and steady preparation for a U ? which they were told they and their friends were probably not going to lead. “The earnestness and keenness of the great majority of our undergraduates in these circumstances fills me with admiration,” Mr Lindsay declared.