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...American History at Oxford University in the current issue of "Current History." Professor McElroy, who was formerly at Princeton, discusses the tendency in America to assume that one and all are fitted for higher education. Harvard and Yale house units, he says, are in no immediate danger of becoming Oxonian. His article, in part, follows...
...best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite-sent in some travel notes from Italy. Helen Young wrote a page of tittle-tattle. She is society editor of Hearst's Herald & Examiner. William Randolph Weaver, younger brother of Poet John Van Alstyn Weaver (In American) and the magazine's editor, wrote about soap models...
...Cyril Argentine Alington, 59, headmaster of Eton since 1916. Tall, personable, he is an Oxonian, onetime (1908-16) headmaster of Shrewsbury School, chaplain since 1921 to King George V. To carry on at Eton he refused the deanship of Canterbury Cathedral. (But his salary of more than ?5,000 is greater than a dean's living.) His students admire his strong face and square shoulders (he played football at Marlborough). His fine, sonorous voice commands their rapt attention at every Leaving Address. Like most British schoolmen, Head Beak Alington is a versatile but chiefly intramural scholar. England knows well...
Suave, Sir Esmond made no protest at the banquet. Resolute, he exerted quiet pressure later. Last week in the British House of Commons Capt. Victor Cazalet, Oxonian, M. P. who greatly admires money, popped this question...
Wade of Cambridge should do close to 10 seconds in the double furlong, and Goodwillie, former Cornell star now an Oxonian, should be formidable in the furlong...