Wrapping his sage advice in the Jam of an Irrepressible humour, Sir Louis Beale pleasantly assumed the role of an unmatriculated don delivering '2 post-graduate lecture to the array of University talent at the annual dinner of the Oxford and Cambridge Society, gathered by custom primarily to fy the flag of the two Senior British Universities and secondarily to rejoice at and mourn the result of the coincident struggle fon the Thames. His approval of the University's habit of unsettling the minds of ils charges gave a clear bint to the right depariment which men and women to-day should assume In facing the tasks assigned to them. The groove and the rut are Sorry resting places. Convention may Undermine even the bonds of healthy discipline itself, if it be too rigidly Preferred to the adventurous spirit of inquiry which the unsettled mind Henerates. The world to-day needs the sanity of an empiricism which takes nothing for granted, which refuses to be smothered by the mechanical production of mass-hysteria. "And Sir Louis touched the exact note of timely inspiration when he deprecated a craven defeatism Which allowed itself to be dismayed by the problems of the day. Fortunately "there is no sign that the Universities of democratic countries are smitten by this plague. The Youth which they train shows an imitable calmness. It is not disposed to bemoan the troubles of its age. Tt hes, indeed, a cheerful belief in its capacity for grappling with whatever tasks the situation may impose. Despite the jeremiads of professional croakers it is quite prepared to climb the hill of which Sir Louis spoke, without more than a modest dimidence arid therefore with complete It has no fixed convic-ions. Ths ind has acquired the Proper sense of proportion just Because it is gloriously unsettled.
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