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...Englishmen were told that there is a jinx lurking somewhere about Deal they would not exactly understand. What is this jinx? Simply an American colloquial alibi for consistent failure to win the title for over 20 years...
...155th exhibit gives the impression that Englishmen have been compelled to pursue art for money's sake. The exhibition is an endless parade of fashionable portraits painted for a price and fashionable onlookers...
...Farewell Curse" is a poetic playlet of love and duty, which endeavors to develop the idea that learning without love is incomplete. "The Maharani of Arakan" is a romantic comedy, and to those who see below the surface of the allegory there is the lesson of the endeavor of Englishmen and Hindus toward reconciliation...
...Rhodes scholarships, intended to develop cordial relations among the English-speaking nations of the world, left their task half accomplished. Americans have poured across the sea to Oxford and the association with Englishmen in their own country has been profitable. But the feeble trickle of Englishmen to American universities has prevented the thorough understanding which Rhodes intended. "Reciprocity", in this case, is necessary, and the stimulation has been provided. Each year the Davison scholarships will support one student from Oxford and one for Cambridge at Harvard, Yale and Princeton; in all six men. As with the Rhodes scholarships, general fitness...
...build up a permanent student representation. However, small numbers may almost prove of advantage. At Oxford, there is danger lest the size of the group of Americans defeat its purpose, for the students are surrounded by their own countrymen, and thorough intermingling with the English is hampered. The two Englishmen at Harvard will have no such obstacle to becoming acquainted with the peculiarities of Americans. They may well fear partial "Americanization...