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Further indication of studious Oxford's sudden interest in winning intercollegiate contests-an aspiration hitherto regarded by many an Oxonian as unworthy and "American"-is found in the fact that famed Old Blues have lately been enlisted to coach the varsity teams; college and hall teams have been encouraged to train diligently, schedule hard matches...
...Book of Common Prayer: ". . . through all the chances and changes of life till death do you part.." Author Gibbs, younger brother of Author Cosmo Hamilton, Author Sir Philip Gibbs, was educated, like Tom and Jack, in the College de St. Malo, St. John's College, Oxford, founded the Oxonian weekly, The Tuesday Review. Later he came to the U. S., divided his two years here between writing two novels and playacting. Other books: The Compleat Oxford Man, Cheadle and Son, Rowlandson's Oxford (history). The Hour of Conflict, The Persistent Lovers, Bluebottles, Gunfodder, Soundings, Labels, Harness...
...when in Anglican dignity We sip Oxonian tea. Let none in vile malignity Condemn propriety...
Died. Dr. Robert Seymour Bridges, 85 since 1913 Poet Laureate of England; after a short illness; at his home, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. Son of a country 'squire, Etonian, Oxonian, he abandoned medicine for poetry at the age of 37 A classicist and inveterate prosodist, his appointment to succeed Laureate Alfred Austin amazed the literary world-Kipling, Yeats, Masefield, and Hardy were also regarded as candidates. Continually was Laureate Bridges chided for silence, poetical and personal; when he visited the U. S. and denied interviews, one newspaper headlined: KING'S CANARY WON'T CHIRP. Less...
Last year at Oxford he directed Othello, first non-professionally coached production of the Dramatic Society. He is writing a biography of Metternich and will finish his Rhodes Scholarship term this summer-unique among the 750 U. S. specimens which have thus far been officially submitted to Oxonian scrutiny...