SCHOOLS ON SHIPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1942, Page 4

SCHOOLS ON SHIPS

SOMETIMES SENT ON CRUISES. The answer to Mr Bevin’s recent statement: “I have never known why school premises should always be a building; why could they not sometimes be a ship?” is that school premises have not always been buildings and that occasionally they have been ships, a writer in the “Manchester Guardian” observes. The American scheme for a “university afloat” conducted at least two very successful world cruises in 192 G and 1927', first in the Ryndam and then in the Cunard liner Aurania. On the latter trip four hundred men and women students were carried, and they devoted themselves with great energy to study, lecture attendance, field trips (when in port), and athletic sports. A Swedish steamer, the Isolda, has also been used as a floating college for young seamen, and in 1930 the Bishop of Bermuda dedicated a barge presented by the Grand Union Canal Company to canal workers as a floating school. Miami University. Florida, has held successful undersea schools (the staff and pupils wear diving-helmets) in the department of marine zoology.