Word: briant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a college tale as U. S. tabloids like to print about U. S. universities is Oxford Limited.* Its author who washes the university's whiskey-spattered linen in public is Oxford Graduate Keith Briant, last year's editor of The Isis, undergraduate paper. Launderer Briant, rolling up his sleeves, drags forth these soiled garments...
...behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer...
Drinking. To hard-drinking Oxford the new student is quickly introduced in a "Freshmen's Blind" given by second-year men. Freshman Briant's experience: "By 11 o'clock the room was a shambles...
Physical Education. Oxford lacks a gymnasium. Oxonian Briant reproaches Oxford's chief benefactor, Lord Nuffield, * who gave $10,000,000 for a medical centre last year, for refusing to allocate $500,000 of it for a school of physical education "to minimize the number of those requiring the benefit of medical research...
Study. Oxford's famed tutorial system, now assiduously being copied in U. S. universities, permits undergraduates to cut lectures, requires only that they visit their tutors once a week and pass an examination twice a year. Pupils usually read essays on their reading to their tutors. One pupil, Briant relates, passed his essays, with the marginal criticisms of his tutor, along to his successors. Thereafter "the complacent Fellow sat in his armchair, agreeably engrossed in his own problems, while year after year different pupils read him the same essays." The Briant conclusions: Not more than 20% of Oxford...