UNDERGRADUATES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 January 1930, Page 3

UNDERGRADUATES.

MEN AND WOMEN DIFFER. '

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Jan. 11.

Male undergraduates at Glasgow University have roused the ire ol women students by allegations that girls do not possess sufficient cliunu to marry, find that so far as Glasgow University is concerned, “sweet girl” is the World's 'greatest myth.

A fight has arisen out of the students council’s rejection of a proposal -.mo liew club ouildmgs costing a iiumlred thousand sterling should b« open to women students, and the name was lit by a man writing in the students' magazine, describing women students at Glasgow as follows:—“Ugly in face, form and mind, no humour, initiative or originality; no love of beauty; no taste in dress; no idea of food; no religious beliefs; no discretion where men are concerned ; iio aptitude for serious study; no delights in music; no taste for art and no wish to escape from their destined pro.ession of school teaching.” The statement has been widely reprinted and has aroused considerable bitterness.

Women students at London University replies: “If we are ugly in face, form and mind, men are not even conscious they are so. If .we lack humour men have only sex and beer for subjects of conversation. Their budding connoisseur ship in food springs from snobbery and religious belief from the ’eighties. Discernment where women are concerned from books and delight in music as savages delight in his drum they do not wish to escape from the destined dangerous profession as oiir husbands.”

Another man writes in the London “Chronicle.”—-“The original attack understated the conditions. Photographs of the first half dozen girls seen entering Glasgow University any day would show not one has sufficient charm to marry. As soon as girls go to the University they get the impression they are competent with men as intellectual professional equals. This brings out the worst in them. Women are distorting their ideals and destroying individuality of every university they enter, and give nothing ,jn turii. They are parisites on great traditions. An average typist beats, them for looks and an average waitress gives you the bill with more charm than, a woman student puts into half ail hour’s conversation. The sweet girl graduate is the world’s greatest myth.”