tle had grounds for his assertion—at All events it does not seem to have been rebutied—but it certainly must have come as a shock to those folk Who often feel that the prominence of the University athletic contests in the daily press gives a wrong impression of the functions of austere Institutions, "Nor will some harassed don be backward in suggesting that the lecture room sometimes create the conviction that Physical well-being Is all too eagerly Studied at the expense of those learn enterprises for which the parent {gullessly pays in sending his offspring fo the University. At this moment, when Oxford is reported to be putting Forth superhuman efforts to break the terrible monotony of Cambridge success on, the Thames, the suggestion that that University is neglectful of physical training seems almost cruel.. Of course there must be a sane explanation of the attack which probably derives from the fact that physical {raining is not within the purview of Moderations or the Tripos: It is all Very shocking bul somehow or other the (we senior Universities have their own brand of conservatism: itis often amsatied by the undergraduate tu polities, philosophy or poetry. He 1s the biggest diehard of all when It comes 10 a question of athletic exer= else, g0 perhaps the critic from Birm-Ingham will find cold comfort in his despair.
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