"NIT-WITS"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1932, Page 11

"NIT-WITS"

AN OXFORD ATTACK

LONDON, 11th December

"Incompetent nit-wits" is the bitter phrase applied to "noblemen" undergraduates in Christ Church, Oxford, by Mr. Giles Playfair, son of the playwright and therftre manager, Sir Nigel Playfair, following a recent college "rag."

Christ Church is the university's most exclusive college, and is notable for its many titled undergraduates. Mr. Playfair attacks them in tho undergraduates' magazine and censures thern^ for reviving an old custom of ducking fellow undergraduates unblessed with titles or athletic prowess in Mercury's fountain in the middle of the quadrangle. "I had hoped that Oxford had outgrown the worst side of the public school spirit. I can only appeal to the 'noblemen' of Christ Church to abide by their own rules, if they aro unable to abido by those of enlightened humanity."

The incident followed a dinner at Bulingdon Club, hilarious youngsters ducking three quieter students, who wore fully dressed.

► Mr. R. 11.I1. Harrod, the senior censor, severely disciplined the offenders.

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