A party of Swiss yodellers stepped from: the boat train at Victoria singing "Tira-tire" like Gilbert's happy pieman, and announcing (in appropriate melody) that "Spring has fnty the life. of the Boarding school sand that Is not condvelve to maturity"
"One never hears of young men belnit embroiled tn'a fast sot of under Fraducter, yot the reverse ie frequcntly. the fo bably the fast ect consists in nothings more than a ten throw sherry. parties and drunk, but for They are sixteen members of the [william elt yodel choir which is to appear at the Polytechnic Tours re~ Union at the Albert Hall and in some Jprovinelal towns, and their yodelling Tang high above all the noise of trains and engine-whistles. The higher they yodelled the graver they looked, though their costumes of short black and red jackets and knee breeches were gay enough. One can imagine that among the mountains the effect must be prodigious.
But when they sing of Spring having come, we smile sardonically. [Another wet week-end is being added to the previous consecutive eleven fand the air is raw and chill. The night before last it froze hard for a few hours, Even London's gardens where Nature and skill produce the Neither the grave Prine Laski's or of other colleges endorse her strictures. They smile indulgently and speak of the phase of youth when we all want to throw things about, Neither are they alarmed about her sherry orgies. The chief argument advanced for having women educated at Oxford is that they may make better wives—a bland way of discrediting one of Miss Lask's chief premises. is noticeable that we never hear of disputes over the admission of women to Cambridge. Perhaps that is because they have been there s0 much longer than at Oxford, have marked out a definite sphere for themselves, and have not tried to xo More Bon Voyage Parties The time for Miss "Jimmie" Hal-wills departure is approaching rapidly 38 she has hardly-a free moment. On Thursday she was given a scower ud win by the Misses Stranack and hat night she dined with Mrs. Edward Sportsman of the Carolinas is stopping over for a ten day visit with Mr. and Mrs. Webb, after which he will continue his Journey around the world.
Among the guests who came to greet the delayed visitor but who had Fuch a. good time they stayed on long after the cocktail hours were Mr. and MIN. Kao Chien Fu are full of spirit anti great subtlety. In the best tradition of China he lays stress on the elemental forces of rain, fog, wind and storm and he is a master at such revealing technique as the delicate strokes of the withered branches or flying leaves. best and earliest show, all bulbs are many days behind; even of crocuse® there are but few in flower, and daffodils show no more than three for four inches of green shoots.
On the other hand I cannot recall 'a winter in which flowers were so beyond it. T'never heard for instance of Cambridge girl students wanting dine at the Union—a demand which caused a great rumpus at Oxford. But in any ease, I think the grave spirits of Girton' and Newnham would shudder at the thought of bringing notoriety upon themselves.
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