Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though His Majesty George II was deposed in 1924 as King of Greece, he is still a Royal Prince of Denmark, his fatherland. Therefore the press of Copenhagen was flustered and appalled, last week, by news that George II would appear in public debate at Oxford, England, before the famed undergraduate Oxford Union. Most unseemly to Danes seemed the subject to debate...
Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side-exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford students it was a jolly, royal joke; but presumably King Christian X of Denmark was vexed to read that his George II had said in debate...
...Europe had the nations played with balls of leather instead of balls of lead." When George II had spoken, that distinguished Spanish man of letters Professor Salvador de Madariaga rose and presented with serenity and wit the case for esthetics. By the decisive vote of 286 to 237 the Oxford Union balloted that vernacular George II had lost the debate. Were George II Roman Catholic, in stead of Greek Orthodox, his remarks would have deeply offended the many Roman Catholics who know that His Holiness (once a famed mountain climber) dis approves of certain modern excesses in athletics, especially where...
...American education with the English system which has made the Anglo-Saxon race predominant on every playing field, battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain...
...hoped that this exhibition of collegiatism will not go unheeded by the group of anglo-philes who point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite...