“RAZE OID COLLEGES”
BERNARD SHAW IN CRITICAL MOOD REGARDED AS NURSERIES Australian and X.Z. Press Association LONDON, Tuesday. Bernard Shaw, at the opening of a residential hostel, which Lord and Lady Astor had presented to the Plymouth University College, advocated razing Oxford and Cambridge to the ground. Public schools generally are regarded as nurseries and Oxford and Cambridge might share the same fate unless .it was preferred to use them as asylums for the mentally defective. The older universities should be replaced by local universities, whose loss of the Oxford and Cambridge tone would be an outstanding virtue. For centuries university education has made decent government impossible, he concluded.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 796, 17 October 1929, Page 11
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