Oh, to be in Reno
‘THE first of Peter Lawlor’s Saturday morning talks from 2YA deals with his experiences at the University of Nevada, in Reno, and, thus can have little news value for those who go to the pictures or read their Juan in America. The speaker described, with perhaps slightly disapproving enthusiasm, the spacious playing-fields, the lake for skating, the dance-hall, concert-hall and lecture-hall. In this oasis for the unacademic, exams are postponed if they clash with proms; there are as many football-fields as classrooms; and scholarships are awarded to grid stars instead of to scholars. If the foundation occasionally gets a visit from a New York man of letters it is probably because he happens to be spending his six weeks in Reno at the time. In fact, from Mr. Lawlor’s account we gather that the University might be described as a glorified night-club school and a hotbed of matrimony. Staunch New Zealanders will be gratified that Mr. Lawlor has escaped safely back to the land of glorified night schools,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 15
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173Oh, to be in Reno New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 368, 12 July 1946, Page 15
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