THE UNIVERSITY CHURCH AT OXFORD can have heard few stranger
sermons than that preached last Sunday by Professor Kilpatrick on the sub- ject of homosexuality. 'It is open to any senior member of this university,' he said, `to corrupt our undergraduates with considerable security, callously filling the lives of these young men with misery and sin.' And he went on to make other remarks in the same vein. I should normally have felt inclined to comment upon Professor Kil- patrick's sermon; but this letter I have received from an eminent source in Oxford makes it un- necessary.
Si. Clare's College. Oxford
SIR.--The recent sermon by Prof. Kilpatrick in which he has revealed to an astonished world the improper uses to which tutorial hours are put in men's colleges here, must have caused dismay to all right-minded citizens; and we naturally applaud his design (as reported in the Daily Sketch) of setting up an under-cover inquisition to delate suspects to the Secular Arm. However, is this laudable action enough? As the Professor pertinently observes, the law may be changed for the worse; the Secular Arm may lose its power to prosecute; and then, the copper being disabled, what availeth the copper's nark? We shall then be forced to rely on mere preven- tion of what might otherwise be conspicuously punished. ThR is an unfortunate fact which we must boldly face.
For this reason we, a group of orthodox women, have decided to set up an organisation of voluntary chaperones, who will be ready to sit and invigilate at all purely masculine tutorials, in order to prevent the least occasion of scandal. We shall keep our charges to the minimum and hope to be able to offer special rates to certain colleges. The organisation is not yet complete, but I know that the mere news of this project will give great relief to parents and all British people of sound instincts. Our immediate need is of voluntary workers. Will all interested please communicate with :
THE SECRETARY, 'Kilpatrick Vigilantes: St. Clare's College, Oxford.
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