A “DATE-MAKER.”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 416, 24 April 1937, Page 2

A “DATE-MAKER.”

Bureau In University. It is reported that the head of the | date bureau at the University of ' Toronto will shortly retire because | the business of finding partners for i under-graduates attending dances, i movies, and other social engagements 1 does not pay at ten cents a time, and i the under-graduate purse will not ! bear a higher fee, says the Manchester Guardian. It is a pity that the bureau should be deprived of the services of this gentleman, who, finance apart, appears to have made a success of his job. By wrapping himself in a discreet anonymity and advertising daily :n the University newspaper he has managed to attract as many as fifty applicants a day at a time when the date bureaux of many other universities have been obliged to close for lack of support. Needless to say, he has gained a sound knowledge of the undergraduate taste in partners. He knows, for example, that, unlike their brothers in the world outside, university gentlemen prefer brunettes, that the brunettes and their blonde sisters, too, like to “date up” with students in medicine and engineering, and that, owing to the prevailing slimness of the scholastic purse, most dates are based on a sharing of expenses. Like many of the retired great, the head proposes to spend his leisure in writing his memoirs. They should make an interesting volume, and it is hoped that when his fortunes established he will endow the great bureau at the University so that future heads of the institution may be free from financial embarrassment.