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...large and distinguished governing body of Oxford University voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...
...Vanity Fair, David Gray, novelist-protege of Editor Frank Crowninshield, Anglophile, told universities in general and philanthropists in particular that to hasten "America's intellectual Golden Age," what lacks is the Oxonian tinge. He said: "All Souls college at Oxford . . . is an exclusive club of intellectual swells, picked graduates of other colleges who live, at the expense of the foundation, in a kind of divine idleness...
Seeking further information from an Oxonian, a friend, my concern for the permanency of the accomplishment was quickly put at rest, since, as he explained, the contingency had already been anticipated by the undergraduate steeplejack and the article provided...
...McGovern studied at the University of Oxford, and through his brilliant work attained the distinguished Oxonian doctor's degree...
This last lament contained food for thought. It was a genuine lament; many an Oxonian would feel injured, if only in principle, by fresh curtailment of his freedom to be with Oxoniennes. But many another Oxonian-for Oxford's flower, full-blown these many centuries, is here and there wilted to a decadence unknown in U. S. universities, as yet-would shrug and smile secretly to think that in their concern for the conduct of mixed company in Oxford, the authorities had continued to disregard well-known practices among athletes and poets, dons, esthetes and choir boys...