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Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part...
...center and soul of Oxford life is in the Colleges. The University as such receives and matriculates the undergraduate, examines him, grants him degrees, and its police powers guard him while he is outside college walls in Oxford; but every day he lives in his College and learns to recognize in it the first meaning which Oxford...
Field, who is a former president of the CRIMSON, was chairman of the discussion group on college journalism, one of six committees which discussed various problems of college life. Although the committee reports from the Columbia, Missouri, convention have not yet been sent out, Field explained the general feeling of his group with regard to journalistic problems...
Several famous Harvard personalities came under the eye of the camera during the past week. The University Film Foundation felt that its picture of Harvard life would be incomplete without movies of Dean Briggs, Professors Merriman and Kittredge, and other University notables...
...Windsor Castle two years ago. Last spring, Miss Draper was presented at the Court of St. James's, an honor no British actress has ever received, and an episode which added one more brief, unpredictable mis-en-scene to the abrupt series in which Ruth Draper's life, and all other lives, is told...