BETWEEN SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY
Sur,—I am sorry that you should question the desirability of practical experience of the world coming beween school and university It has been my lot, during the last thirty-five years, to interview endless men just down from the university. If there is one clear impression left upon my mind it is that they would probably have derived even greater benefit from their time at college, and most certainly have been better equipped for life had they had a little experience of the rough and tumble of the world for six, or even three, months, preferably in business, between school and university.
So convinced am I of this that I have impressed upon parents who have consulted me that I regard it as a positive handicap for boys to pass from the sheltered and restricted life of school, where everyone ministers to their wants, to the sheltered but less restricted existence of the university without first learning what it is to have to fend for themselves in a workaday sphere of life.—Yours, &c.,
40 Museum Street, London, W.C. r. STANLEY UNWIN.
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