SIR.—The suggestion of your Girton correspondent is dramatically opposed to
the needs of today. The necessity for specialisation com- pels study along narrow lines, and a balance is needed by regular attendance at places where we shall of necessity meet those who normally move, and so think, in other grooves.
Your correspondent asks the help of Rotary International. It is a chief virtue of a Rotary Club that, by means of its single classification rule and its compulsory sixty-per-cent. attendance, men working in different fields, mainly in business but also professional, are, for at least one hour a week, taken out of their own grooves, and not only have their eyes opened to the existence of other men with different ideas but are compelled to meet them and learn their language; it is often a different language, even when all the words both use can be found in the Anglo-American dictionary.
One thing university .graduates need is to come down to earth again for their own ultimate benefit. The university graduate should be leaven in the non-university dough, and so must beware of becoming a fish out of the water of common life.—Yours faithfully, A ROTARIAN GRADUATE OF CAMBRIDGE.
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