A Retirement

Dr. Lewis Richard Farnell, a bent, commonplace-looking don of Oxford, retired after his three years of service as Vice Chancellor of the University. He it was who banned Grand Guignol plays, closed the fashionable Bullingdon Club and Blue Riband, placed certain cafes out of bounds and objected to Miss A. Maude Royden (lecturer), Marie C. Stopes (birth control), George Lansbury (Socialist). He once called in the police to analyze supposedly powder-poisoned chocolates sent him by annoyed undergraduates. The police found tooth powder. He was succeeded by Dr. Joseph Wells.

The Chancellorship of Oxford is an honorary post, now held by the Marquis Curzon. The Vice Chancellor is selected for a period of years from among the heads of the various colleges. He is the chief disciplinary officer, is really a super-military police of the Oxford lanes.

On leaving office, Dr. Farnell stated that the women students, recently admitted to university privileges, give no trouble and work hard. But co-education at Oxford is nothing like that in America, described by Mr. Gavit.