23 MARCH 1929, Page 2

Many of, the students, in Madrid come from remote parts

of the Peninsula, and their parents will have to bear all the expense of the transfer to some provincial university. The Dictator makes special. reference to the disgraceful conduct of girl students, and suggests that he will. have to reconsider the question of giving them facilities to enter the liberal; professions. This is only one of many signs that the Church is using. General Primo de Rivera to cripple modern education. Almost exactly a hundred years ago the despot, Fernando VII., under ecclesiastical pressure closed the universities, though indeed one of them assured the King that it was innocent of the " vice of thinking."

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