Shove-ha’penny, Snooker, or Slippery Sam
Derby Daily Telegraph, Tuesday 10 February 1931
SIR ABRAHAM FLEXNER has revealed that among the subjects in which American university students may qualify for degrees are clog-dancing, typewriting, bee-keeping, food etiquette, wrestling and principles of home laundry.
Although this shows a broad-minded spirit I feel that it does not go far enough. If a B.A. is now awarded for advanced bee-keeping why not one for silkworm culture or the higher stages of guinea-pig farming? And an opportunity should certainly be afforded the persevering student who has been ploughed in mathematics or political economy to qualify for his degree by passing with honours in Shove-ha’penny, Snooker, or Slippery Sam.