THE RUSH TO ’VARSITY.
“It- is difficult to imagine a more democratic institution than the modern I'nivei'si.ty. ft is a striking, hut little-known. fact that only fifty per cent, of Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates are public school men. - ’ writes Sir Charles Oman. M.P.. in the I “Morning Post.". “Of the. 126:1 me” students who matriculated at- Oxford j during the academical year 1928-1920. | less than half. 630 only, came from ! the English Public Schools. Apart ! from overseas students, the other haF came from secondary schools, no fewer than 26 per cent, having started their education at the elementary schools. Of the total number of undergraduates in residence, 4 per cent, are “'up’ by virtue of some scholarship or exhibition. And of the remainder, the vast majority are sons of doctors, parsons lawyers, and other professional men who are obliged to pinch and scrape in order to provide their sons with what they rightly consider the highest education the country can provide.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1931, Page 6
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161THE RUSH TO ’VARSITY. Hokitika Guardian, 20 April 1931, Page 6
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