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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
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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.
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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. The reason for your down-and-out
feeling is your liver. It nhould uour out two
pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily.
If this bile is not flowing freely, your food
doesn't digest. It just decays in the bowels,
(las bloats up your stomach. You have a
thick, bad taste and your breath la fbui.
skin often breakn out In blemishes. Your h? a
aches and you feel down and out. Your whole
system is poisoned.
It taken those good, old CABTBR'S
LITTLE LIVER PILUS to get than* two
pounds of bile flawing freely and aaafaa you
feel "up and up?' They contain wonderful,
harmless, gentle vegetable extracts, am?lag
when it coma* to making the bils Cow freely.
But don't aak for liver pills. Ask for Carter's
Little Liver Pills. Ixmk for the name Carter's
Little Liver Pilla on the red label. Resaat a
substitute. 26c at all stores. ? 1S51 C. hi. Cs.
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/ first Tuesday In each month
at t p.m. Yiaitlng Brethren am welcomed.
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How to train BABY'S
BOWELS
Babies, bottle-fed or breast-fed,
with any tendency to be constipated,
would thrive if they received daily
half a teaspoonful of this old family
doctor's prescription for the bowels.
That is one sure way to train tiny
bowels to healthy regularity. To
, avoid the fretfulness, "vomiting, "
crying, failure to gain, and other ills
of constipated babies.
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is
good for any baby. For this, you heme
the word of a famous doctor. Fortyseven
vears oi practice taught him
iust wnat babies need to keep their
little bowels active, regutar; keep
little bodies plump and healthy. For
Dr. Caldwell specialized in the treatment
of women add little ones. He
attended over 3500 births without
lota of one mother or baby.
Da. W. B. Calowc li's |
SYRUP PEPSIN
A Doctor* Rtmilf Lmxmtkm
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