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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...
...bedecked and smiling he was formally welcomed as he descended from the Houston at Honolulu on the Island of Oahu the following morning. Through flagwaving crowds he drove from the city, visited fishing villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight...