Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present educational conditions has been completed. The trend has been unmistakably in the direction of splitting large educational bodies into smaller, more homogeneous groups; but the academic world is at present extremely leery, and rightfully so, of any attempt to graft the English system in force at Oxford and Cambridge on to our present institutions. American universities are sprung from a different conception of education and must meet the demands of men from far wider spheres and with far more varieties of interest. They must evolve their own adaptations to modern conditions....The experiment indicates above all else the fact...
Eventually Harvard will probably have several "inner colleges." Then in Cambridge, Mass., will have risen an institution similar to Oxford University in England...
...Story. Arnold Blettsworthy, newly weaned from Oxford, not only affianced himself to the tobacconist's yellow-haired daughter, but joined forces with his best friend in a project to enlighten the world through a chain of bright blue bookshops. Cheated by the friend, jilted by the tobacconist's daughter, Blettsworthy's disillusion affected him so desperately that his kindly solicitor-guardian prescribed the traditional remedy-a year on the high seas...
Even if the new "House plan at Harvard scrupulously disowns connections with a vaguely similar system in effect at Oxford. Cambridge has some features in common with the country which includes its more venerable name sake. The most noticeable of these is that, during the fall at least, the history of Cambridge, like that of England, is one of continual invasion. Already this year the Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army...
...only in contact between tutor and student but also between student and student does the House plan promise to lead away from the present condition of complete self-determination toward the Oxford idea of gentle guidance. The student will be led, through the very structure of the college, into contacts which the college deems good for him, instead of being allowed complete freedom to establish or repudiate those contacts in accordance with his own desires...