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It's Always t Good Business ? To Use ? ' * Good Printing We do all kinds ? Every job guaranteed 0 The Camden Chronicle PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS Telephone 29 Camden, S. C. *o I Oxford university i An Oxford Postman. TPr?par?<t by National G?o*raphlo Society, WaablnMton, L>. C.~WNU Hurvtc?. 11K prince of Wales recently opened the splendid new $200,000 extension of the Taylorlnn Institution at Oxford university, thus adding another unit to the already pretentious group of buildings that make up one of England's famous Institutions of learning. Oxford Is, perhaps, the best known In America ,of all foreign universities, owing to the Rhodes scholarships, granted since 1004 under the will of tho late Cecil J. Rhodes, South African magnate. Each year i!2 American college students, usually gradu- j ates, are selected on the basis of their j records In American colleges and a | personal Interview, and are awarded i a three years' scholarship at an Oxford college. An equal number are I selected from the Rritish common- | wealth's and the colonies of the em- ! pire. In all, about 20O Rhodes sehol0?irs are in residence at Oxford each ' -yehr. Rhodes, who believed that eventually all the English-speaking peoples of the world would make common cause, hoped through these scholarships to produce leaders for his dream. One hears unsympathetic observers at Oxford refer to the American Rhodes scholars at the university ns "the last of the aristocrats," Implying that they, too, often band together and keep themselves aloof from their Vtydlow undergraduates. A difference in age and different heritage of Interests, hobbles, and traditions do make fusion, even orientation, difficult. Most of the Rhodes scholars with whom one becomes acquainted at Oxford are of a line type?friendly, help' a bit reserved, as perhaps might become a national of another country, and studiously Inclined. Some of the American Rhodes scholars have been elected to Oxford's most exclusive so-dal and literary clubs and societies, and most of them have enviable scholastic and athletic standings during their residence at the university. The Rhodes Idea may be said to be fulfilled to the extent that mutual tinder- ! standing has been fostered by the con- ; tact and conflict of youthful Ideas of representative members of the English-speaking nations. Why Americana Like Oxford. Twenty-flve years have elapsed 1 since the" first Rhodes scholars arrived at Oxford. On the evening of July 5, 1 1929, a considerable number of that ; first group attended the trustees' din- i ner in the Hall of Rhodes house, on , South ParkB road. Nearly all the 220 ; guests were old Rhodes scholars. The largest number were from the United States, but there were some who had coine, for this event, all the way from such distant lands as South Africa and Australia. Stanley Baldwin pre- ' sided and the prince of Wales, as principal speaker, proposed the health of the Rhodes scholars. In addition to Rhodes scholars, many other Americans are attracted to Oxford by the unrivaled resources for research afforded by the Bodleian library, and also because the atmosphere of the city Is conducive to literary and academic work. Oxford is a mecca for American college professors and Instructors on sabbatical leave. In contrast to American schools, Oxford's lectures have relatively little Importance, No attendance records are kept and an undergraduate might possibly go through his entire course without attending a single one. The real check Is the tutor, to whom the undergraduate Is Immediately assigned upon his arrival and to whom he must report at least once a week for assignments. recitations and informal discussions. The tutorial system nl lows for much greater development of a student's natural bent and Indi vi'lunllty, but It Is practical onl.\ where the number of students Is not large. The average number of students at an Oxford college is about 2l)U. In the regular course of event", examinations do not come until near the end of the second year of resl donee, and everything depends upon the showing made in them. The teaehlng stall at Oxford eon sists of university professors, readers, lecturers and demonstrators, numbering more than 100. and afKMit .'too college fellows, tutors and lecturers. As Is tlie case In American universities, there are faculties leading to specific degrees, the principal ones at Oxford hetng theology, law. medicine, lltenie hurnnnlorcs. modern history, j medieval and modern languages, orlfit a I languages, and natural science, f'.oth the college* and the university give lectures, and each co-operates to ' * * r ' 1 promote ncA<lemlc harmony and etheleney. Members of any college are ut liberty to attetui any lectures, unlvers^y or collegiate, which their tutors recommend and without the payment of special fees. Hut.,the academic, vital and fundamental ns It Is, Is really the reverse side of the medal. Ox/ord Is more than classrooms, and degrees, and rules aidl regulations, and thojr exr, ceptions. F. I). Mow no doubt exaggerates when he says: "For beatify and for romance the tlr.st place among all the clt|es of the I'nited Kingdom must he given to Oxford." Hut one .must search far to find an equal of the mellow beauty of its winding streets and its classic buildings, or of the pastoral charm of the meadows and walks along the t Iq-rwell ami the Isis. or of the romantic associations of tlie place, from Allied the Cleat s day to the World war. /' Beauty Along High Street, Walking down High street, alTectionaleh known In Oxford as "the High," one catches some of this feeling of beauty and romance In the long curved fronts of the colleges and churches and other stately buildings which bonier it; for High street Is Oxford and, incidentally, one of the most beautiful streets in the world. Beginning at Carfax, the center of town, It curves gently for half a mile or more to the Magdalen bridge, unfolding vistas of spires, and stout stone walls, and moss-covered cornices, and towers, and courtyards, and a thousand and one things, each more lovely than the Inst, until one begins to regret that such delight cannot last and must dwindle at the end to some mediocrity. Hut at the end of the High Is reserved the most charming view of all. j Rising gracefully from the buildings i of Magdalen college Is an exquisite j Gothic hell-.tmver.?from which each j year a Seventeenth century eucharistlc hymn Is sung at sunrise on the first of May. Directly opposite are the verdant, spacious grounds of the Botanic garden, the oldest In England, and, to close the picture, beyond Is the River Cherwell. with Its screen of bordering elms and willows and the stately arched bridge which carries the High toward f.ondon town. Some prefer to reverse the picture Just drown, and It Is charming the other way. Hut Carfax, with Its noisy hustle and cvnfuslon,- brings one Just a hit too suddenly to earth. It Is bet- | ter to linger on Magdnlen bridge, where one may drink deep of scenes that belong to another world?truly a world of romance and beauty. There Is yet another spot In Oxford where one may feel this age-old unreality. Not far from the High Is a round-domed building (the dome Is the entire building) known as the Radcllffe Camera, the rending room of the Bodleian library. A small fee will admit one to a stairway which winds <*ip and up to a circular out-door gallery far above the street. View From Radcllffe Camera. Below and all around Is spread a veritable forest of stone turrets, towers, nrches, battlements, spires, and delicate tracery. Massive pieces of masonry they undoubtedly are. but from this height they seem light and airy, exquisitely delicate nnd graceful. Refinement of detail Is lost In the splendid upward sweep of whole buildings, although one Is conscious of embellishments which carry the eye nnd delight the spirit. Haphazard as was Oxford's growth, (here Is a symmetry In her architecture which many another city of less spontaneous origin might envy. Beyond the colleges, to the east, Is the green forested slope of Headington hill; to the south, perhaps a hit dim In the mist which rises from the meadows along the Isis. Is Boars hill, nearest of the gently rolling Berkshire Downs; to the west are the railroads and the commercial districts; nnd to the north are the principal college gardens and the university parks. A short cut from the Radcll/Te enmera through the old Divinity school lends to the Bodleian library, the granddad of nil the English II hrnrles In the world. Over the en trance doorway is a Latin Inscription and the worn wooden stairs that lead to the library Itself creak as If their last days had come. But these stairs have creaked to the footsteps of countless thousands for centuries, The Bodleian still clings to the ancient system of listing Its volumes In huge parchment Index boohs, pasting In s slip of paper when new boolce arrive. Federal Judge Fa rig at St. Louis, Mo., has ordered a reduction of 50 per ?ent in the salary of President Baldwin of the Missouri Pacific lines, and i reduction in the salaries of others >y 40 to 46 per cent. Memphis, Term., breweries which lave been producing: all the near-beer Mwisumed in Arkansas, Mississippi tnd Tennesaee points, have <piit that nanufaeture and turned to real beer. William N. Doak, of Fairfax, Va., tecretary of labor in the Hoover cabnet, will resume his post as national cgislativo representative ami editor )f tho Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen about May 5. (Berlin police laat Morulay raided iho offices of the Gorman-Ruosian Oil company in Berlin, and arretted 20 rrtrployes charging them with communism and promulgating communistic doctrines. Governor Futrell, of Arkansas, has told the ipeople of that state that he might convene the legislature in extra session to legalize the sale of beer "if the people d^mnad it strong enough." The Bulkley bill, to speed up. payments to depositors in closed banks by broadening the Law for borrowing from national banks has been passed by the senate. 11 11 1 1 i 11 WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE? WITHOUT CALOMEL And You'll Jump Out of Bed ia the Morning Kurin' to Go If you feel tour nnd mink and the world looks punk, don't hwhIIow a lot of suits, mineral water, oil, laxative randy or ohcwing gum und export them to make you suddenly sweet and buoyant and full of sunshine. For they can't do It, They only movo the bowels and a mere movement doesn't got at the rauae. 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