Word: scholarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following article, the last of a series of six, was written for the Crimson by Andrew Vincent Corry '26, a Rhodes Scholar, now in his second year at Merton College, Oxford...
Criticism has been directed at the Rhodes Scholarships and Rhodes Scholars from friends and enemies for some time. It is inevitable that such criticism should arise. For an idealistic plan, such as Rhodes conceived, must appeal to the imagination of most people. But it will be difficult to find many who would agree on what the qualifications of the ideal Rhodes Scholar should be, and what the Rhodes Scholarships, should accomplish. Consequently, there is criticism...
Differences in customs, and even in language, are sufficient to mark the American Rhodes Scholar off as a foreigner at first. Yet he, and his colleagues from the Dominions, soon adapt themselves to the ways of Oxford, and, on the whole, fit well into the life of the University. Naturally the differences in native ability, temperament, and training make for differences in accomplishment. Some Rhodes Scholars have had a very successful. Oxford career, although their accomplishments would not look like much on paper. They have done well in their Schools, they have taken an active though unobtrusive part...
...second of a series of articles on Oxford University, written for the Crimson by A. V. Corry '27, is printed below. Corry is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford from Montana...
Below is the first of a series of six articles on Oxford University, England, written especially for the Crimson by Andrew Vincent Corry '27, of Butte, Montana, now in his second year at Merton College, Oxford, as Rhodes Scholar from Montana. The remaining five article will appear daily in the Crimson...