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Sewanee still does play smalltime football,* but the real passion at the small (700 men) Episcopal school is for the classics. Latin and Greek are big, and to reinforce the Oxonian atmosphere, upperclassmen who make good grades wear black academic robes to all classes. The school leads the South in per capita production of Rhodes and Fulbright scholars...
...crackling (and self-cultivated) Oxonian accents, he has put forth Nehru's ideas with a snarling eloquence all over the world, giving them a leftist spin that invariably directs them against the West. Menon bends over backward to make allowances for the Communists, in 1956 voted against a U.N. resolution calling for the removal of Russian troops from beleaguered Hungary. He mouthed the Russian line at the Geneva conference on Laos last summer, has echoed Russia's call for an uninspected nuclear test ban. Once criticized by the former Senator William F. Knowland for his consistent advocacy...
...protean Poet-Novelist Robert Graves, who lives on Majorca with his family, two poodles, a passel of cats and a donkey. He promised to lecture "about poetry" because "at universities they don't know anything about it." Kingmaker Starkie got herself nominated, and Rival Gardner quickly followed suit. Oxonian purists then went to the desperate length of putting up Cambridge University's frosty Critic F. R. Leavis, the scholarly exponent of Novelist D. H. Lawrence...
Because it takes a relatively relaxed approach to scholarship, Oxford must tolerate the lazy professor and the student who fritters away most of his college years with endless parties. On the other hand, the Oxonian might well argue that to foster the imagination the university must allow its men leisure in which to reflect. If some people abuse the system, this must be accepted as inevitable. The university can only set the conditions for thought; it shouldn't try to organise scholarship in terms of output-efficiency...
Conversion in Boston. Many Nigerian students, like their colonial counterparts in Asia and the rest of Africa, have long felt equatorially Oxonian about their education. The lucky student who passes entrance exams, happy in the knowledge that he can never again be called "boy," considers himself part of an anointed elite. On graduation, he feels that he can preserve his special status only by entering the civil service. Until lately, upon landing at Ibadan's lavish campus, the undergraduate has hardly had to lift a finger. Room servants tended his every need. When Ibadan recently put in a cafeteria...