Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Princeton men, in common with university men everywhere, will watch with keen interest Harvard's venture in creating a group of residential colleges for undergraduates after the Oxford and Cambridge model. The Harkness gift of eleven million dollars will provide the physical necessities of the plan. It remains to be proved that values will accrue from this courageous effort to integrate the academic and social life of a great university...
...contest was conducted under a combination of the Oregon and Oxford plans of debate. The first plan provides for two speakers on each team, one of whom devotes his time on the rostrum to a cross-examination of the man on the opposing team who presents the constructive argument. The Oxford plan provides for three speakers on each side and for an exchange of speakers by the opposing institutions...
...Anthony Asquith is the son of the late great Earl of Oxford and Asquith by his second wife, Margot Asquith. He has one sister, Princess Bibesco...
Mark French, youthful painter, Robert Newlands, less youthful Oxford Don, were both conducting parlous affairs of the heart; and had it not been for their eighteenth century habit of writing each to the other as confidant, neither affair would have turned out so satisfactorily. Into the Lake Country Mark pursued his love-at-first-sight, a charming bit of femininity out of Jane Austen, or-remembering her ferocious father and mysterious exile at Farthing Hall-Jane Eyre. Mark had no sooner wrung from her a timid confession of love than she dismissed him, insisting that her duty lay with...
...Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just...