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Exactly what went on in Room No. 2604 was not told, but it was easy to imagine long-haired President Arnott dominating the conversation. As a speaker he is romantic, dramatic, often poetic. His accent is unusually pure, probably because his father was English and Oxonian. Since he entered the oil business in 1896 (he went with Vacuum in 1903) he has shown a flair for salesmanship. Most famed and profitable of his ideas was that each type of machine should have a special type of lubricant. Vacuum's chart showing what kind should be used was the result...
...colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship of the opposite sex, synthetic gin, and cinema satisfy his simple needs." Leading up to is final revelation, he alleges that the American...
...first of all on the school which has built up a habit of independent work, and on the home which has also contributed to this, and provides peace and quiet, and an atmosphere in which serious reading is taken for granted. It is I think noteworthy that when the Oxonian goes home for his six weeks' Christmas vacation he attends five or six dances in the course of this period. Sometimes he goes abroad, or to some part of England other than his home, with a group of kindred spirits. The possibility of making steady progress without help from...
...anyone familiar with that system however, the element of complete autonomy for the smaller unit appears essential. If the Harvard and Yale houses are to be merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian, since the very essence of Oxford is the autonomy of the college; and that autonomy is guarded with a jealous love which the outsider finds it hard to understand or to value at its true worth...
...Harvard and Yale Houses are to be merely administrative units, not completely autonomous units, the results, though they may be important, will certainly not be Oxonian...