Word: oxonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first impressions at Oxford. I have seen freshmen very depressed and lonely chiefly because of the weather. It is the first real obstacle to feeling at home in Oxford. Once one has taken proper steps to surmount this obstacle, one has gone a good way towards becoming a good Oxonian. English education owes much to the weather, because English character owes much to the English climate...
...London Sketch and to a smart, egotistical young man named Beverley Nichols, who led British readers to believe that President Coolidge had spoken those very words. Perhaps Mr. Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...
...ridiculous characteristics which he may possess and begins to conform to the collegiate prototype which, though nonexistent, is easily recognisable. Not so when he enters Oxford. Buoyed up by the feeling that he has already made a success of himself, he cannot easily forgive the apathy which British Oxonians feel towards him. This is at the source of an annoyance, to which there are many tributaries. In some cases the annoyance dries up. In others it may flood into a letter, such as that of an "American Oxonian" which was recently published by the London Daily Express, saying that "these...
...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...