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...description of British Universities it is excellent but incomplete. It applies fully to Oxford and Cambridge, fairly well to St. Andrews. very ill to the other versities. Even if it be argued that Oxford and Cambridge are the English University system, St. Andrews is very far from being the Scottish system. The English system is by far the smallest in numbers. (about one-tenth of the enrolment in Glasgow or Edinburgh) and, Apart from its seniority, has no special assets to offset its numerical weakness. St. Andrews, like Oxford and Cambridge, is if the system described by Principal Irvine...
Finally from my own experience I can testify that Harvard and Glasgow have much the same problems in policy, that Harvard is in many wavs, nearer Oxford than is the biggest Scottish university and I believe this to be true of all the Scottish universities including St. Andrews...
...American methods of admission are, of course, of different types. The college examination board given much the same sort of test as do the Scottish universities. The certificate system as I have said, is already being used For the psychological and intelligence we have no parallel. In Great Britain the intelligence tests were scrapped along with the other products of the war, and we have no great faith in their reliability...
...case of the four chief Scottish universities, Oxford, Cambridge, and a few other old seats of learning, the funds derived from benefactions centuries old paid all the expenses of the university until the time of the war. With the increased cost of living, however, these established benefactions meet but 70 per cent, of the expenses, and the other 30 per cent, is gained through fees and through a grant from the Government. The newer universities, like Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, are supported by voluntary contributions and by local levies...
...Scottish links patriarchs plodded wide-eyed after young Roland Mackenzie of Washington, D. C., who was hitting terrific drives. They hemmed and mumbled among themselves about the firmness and precision of square shouldered young Watts Gunn of Atlanta, Ga, They despaired silently when brilliant Roger Wethered of England had an off morning and lost to the equally brilliant but less reliable Robert Scott Jr. of Glasgow. Wethered was one of the Isles' best hopes against the Americans. And Sir Ernest Holderness was another. Sir Ernest lost to another untried youngster, Robert Peattie, whose father is postmaster of Perth. That really...