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...whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans and is now being run in the true American-Oxonian style...
...Oxonian who is asked to write about Oxford for the benefit of possible candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships is bewildered by the multitude of things that might be said. First of all one might mention two first rate sources of information: (1) a little book by Scholz and Hornbeck called "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships", and (2) "The Oxford University Handbook." The latter is authoritative though unofficial--the official University Calendar, or "catalogue" as we should say, is fearfully and wonderfully made, and not to be recommended to the beginner. I see that the latest edition of the Handbook...
Information about Oxford and the scholarships may be found in the Oxford University handbook and in the American Oxonian, a quarterly magazine published at Concord, N. H., the April number of which will be entirely devoted to information for prospective Rhodes scholars. Further details may be had from Professor Frank Aydelotte, of M. I. T., or Professor R. K. Hack, 39 Kirkland street...
...answer for once like an original being according to his own thoughts. Some students, fortunate enough to get letters of introduction, may thus meet a professor or two on a little more intimate basis. But surely there is no approach at Harvard to the easy familiarity of the Oxonian with the Fellows of his college, and even with his President...
GENTLEMEN: - In speaking of the yard, Dr. Hill says at the top of page 2 of his "Harvard College by an Oxonian:" "One thing only was wanting - there was not a bench to be found . . . but there was no place for a weary man to sit and rest himself...