Madison County Democrat. (London, Ohio) 19??-1958, 1956-06-08
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Cambridge, England - Last
year, 1t was our pleasure to
yisit famed Oxford University
and this year we are fortunate
enough to pay a visit to Eng
lands second oldest. Cam
bridge.
Cambridge, while somewhat
like Oxford in appearance, has
perhaps a different person.
ality. Two years younger than
Oxford, it is more spacious and
contains more playing fields
and green's. We would not
wish to argue this point but
this is the way it seems to US.
At any rate the students wear
black robes and ride bicycles
just as they do elsewhere and
race barriers are nonresident.
Here can be seen students
from Sudan, South Africa,
Australia and America-all in
search of knowledge and the
degree of their choice. The at
nosphere here reeks with i'm
tellect which is no doubt a
good thing but we spot couple
of pin-headed characters roam
ing around whose conversation
must be as deadly as King
Tut's will. We made a wide de-
tour away from such obvious
superiors and seek out the gar
den variety of student who
may be interested in things of
our own liking.
First off, we notice that the
town of Cambridge is fairly
Well Americanized in that the
stores hereabouts feature hi-fi
record players, chewing gum
and, i'm some cases, hamburg
efs. OF course the American
influence is due partially to
students from our country and
partially to the fact that the
business people here are a lit
tie bit more ION the ball" than
some we have found in other
parts. An amusing sideiight TO
all this is multitude OIL
nPlease Keep Off The Grass
signs which are completely
ignored by the more studious
individuals who tramp here
and there over the greensward
apparently in deep cogitation
AS to whether or not to book
passage on the first rocket
shin to the moon. It is all very
"raw-thah," as the saying
goes.
The staff at our hotel, The
University Arms, is completely
spoiled and to bear out this
statement of dissatisfaction
we cite the booklet of rules
as laid down by the manage
ment in which we are inform
ed of the dos and don'ts OF
this rather dusty and unkempt
institution. Quite naturally.
we pay absolutely no attention
to all this which makes our
STAY much more worthwhile
especially since it is an old
American custom to disobey
such an obvious attempt at
regulation. 1t occurs to us that
all this monkey business is the
result of the fact that there
are so few hotels here that
competition has more or less
ceased to exist.
But Cambridge has at least
one other redeeming feature
and that is a fine restaurant
nv the name of the Kings
Parade" situated on (vou
guessed IT'D Kings Parade! On
Grated by one Philip REYNOLDS
and his lovely wife. the Kings
Parade embodies about every
thing one would want in the
way of fine food and resplend-
ent decor. Reynolds, an old
Royal Air Force man, tells me
that he went temporarily
blind down in Burma during
the war from drinking native
gin. He's fine row. but says
further that since returning to
the restaurant business he par
takes of nothing but the best
and SHES from all things ma
tive" Smart fellow, this Rey-
nolds.
Any way you look at it,
Cambridge Is a marvel-both
In stature and in design. The
students here do not attend
classes but, rather. they study
on their own and have periodic
conferences with their profess
sors who grade them accord
ing to what they have learned
during particular period.
Very different from the Amer
ican way and very effective |
am told. But it seems to us
that three years at either Cam
bridge or Oxford would be q
pretty bleak existence.
And so we push on once
more toward London where
we stop to check our steamship
tickets and hook passage bS
air TO Paris. London is crowd
cd as usual and the big rec
buses line the streets as far a:
one can see. Our mission ac
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