SportsMen and Schools So far as our ancient universities are
still to be regarded, in the words of the Bidding Prayer, as seminaries of sound !earning and religious education, the relevant authorities it Oxford are on strong ground in requiring a member of the Oxford crew, even during the critical last week at ..Putney,...to:sit for • his appointed examination at Oxford instead of;., undertaking . it . under. supervision _in the vicinity of the waterside. But these arc not days in which the world will tolerate the doctrine that a rowing blue is an undergraduate first and an oarsman afterwards. Quite another scale of values holds the field. In those circumstances the authorities in question had better bow to the inevitable and let blues be blues. The Oxford coach scents to put it a little high in suggesting that " the whole result of the race stay be affected " by the outrage to which \1r. Erskine-Crum has been subjected, but there may be some satisfaction in k taming why Oxford has lost—if she does lose. In that ease " the authorities " will be wise to betake themselves rapidly to some remote retreat.
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