June 1.
Tums was when Oxford and Cambridge were commonly thought of as the playground of rich men. Occasionally they might produce a genius, who would probably have grown, as easily anywhere else. In the main, their educational output seemed limited to clergymen, schoolmasters and those snuffy, gentle, dilapidated bookworms which are still the creatures most generally, though unfairly, associated with the word ''don.""
But this idea is becoming outworn. The contributions made by the two senior Universities ta the prosecution of the war altered popular conceptions, which had already been modified by the increasing demand for men with a University training in the business world. The valuable work done by the Universities in scientific research and training is also coming to be publicly appreciated, and it is not only among Cambridge men that her medical school is now recognized.as one of the finest in the Empire. The tendencies of the times are also catered for by Oxford and Cambridge in their increasing education of women, who at '"'the home of lost. causes'' can now e¥en take
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