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Newspaper Page Text- so THE SUNDAY , OKEQPKIAy, FOBTTAXP, JUXY Oj 1902. THE GREATEST eOLLEGE IN EQ-ROPE FRANK G. CARPENTER WRITES ABOUT OXFORD, WHERE 100 AMERICAN BOYS WILL HAVE SCHOLARSHIPS OXFORD. June 20. la the Athens -of the British Empire, Burroundea by the time-eaten colleges of Eng land's oldest university, tinder the shadows 'of the mighty trees "where for centuries the greatest scholars of our literature have walked, I -write for my American readers. By the bequest of Cecil Rhodes. Oxford University has become to us the most Interesting seat of learning outside of the United States. From now on 100 picked American boys, two for each state and territory; are to bo kept here at school., air. Rhodes' will provides that each stu dent is to be allowed 300, or $1500 a year lor expenses, and that the number shall be kept full by now appointments made through competitive examinations from year to year. For this reason examina tions for Oxford will henceforth be as -common In our country as cTnmnatrTw for West Point and Annapolis, and a Btream of Oxford graduates will slowly)- permeaio every pare or. tne union. In Old Oxford. But first let' mo give you some idyof the university and Its surroundings. I'de Bpalr of transmitting more than an, tm ipresslon. Nathaniel Hawthorne has truly fsaid that "the world lias no place like it, fond It would take a lifetime and mora than one to comprehend and enjoy'lt satte ttaotorily." I have visited most of the clnssio spots on the globe, but cone like thin. Oxford is 'more Impressive than Athens and the spirit of learned antiquity seems to hover more closely over it than over the older ruins of India, China and Japan. For more than 1000 years men have gathered 'here for study Tradition ascribes Oxford's foundation to Sing Alfred in 972. "When It began it was connected with the monas 'teries, but for more than seven centuries jit was a university pure and simple. Dux ttng the Middle Ages it had as many as SOQ0 letudents at one time, and on through e the centuries new colleges have grown up about it, and it has theld its own as one 'of the chief education institutions of the 'world- Tvrentyhreo Different CoIIeces. The town of Oxford has now 60,000 peo iple. It is situated about GO miles from 'London, in the heart of rural England. It is embraced by tho Isls or Upper Thames, Mind tho Chcrwell, which here Join and (flow on to London as the Thames to tho ca. The colleges are scattered all over 'the city. They are not like our great iBchools and you can get no Idea, of them by such comparisons. (Oxford University is not one college, but 23 colleges. -Each college has its own buildings, massive stone structures of two tand three stories, surrounding green courts or quadrangles with mighty trees lining the streets in front of them, and parks are scattered hero and there about them. By some the Isls and the Cherwell flow and In others stand trees centuries old. The colleges are Indescribable in their time-worn and venerable grandeur. Many of them are more like monasteries than colleges. They have their cloisters look ing out upon the quadrangles, and through their carved d6orways you might expect to Ece a monk In gown and cowl come forth. The walls are fairly chewed by the teeth of time. The pillars have holes in them like those in the bark of a mighty tree long since dead, and on the roofs of some the slate is as worn as the wooden shingles of a house 100 years old. Each, col lege has its chapel and dlnlng-hall with its windows of stained glass, many of them painted by the old masters. Some have walls beautifully carved, some are paneled In oak and wondrous architecture meets you at every step, How Colleges Are Constituted. Each college is Independent of the oth ers. Each has its own students, its own professors and its own lecturers, although the students of the various colleges may attend lectures where they please. The students of a college live in it, and tho number varies according to the room and popularity of the institution. At present vthere are 3500 undergraduates going to school here. There are 60 professors and & large number of tutors. The system of instruction is different irom anything we have at home, and it Seems to me that tho American boys will ave an easy time and will be able to take honors without working as hard as in the HJnited States. The system seems to be (merely one of lectures, without recitations. No questions are asked in a classroom and the sole test of a man's scholarship is in "examinations at the end of tho term. Each jstudent is supposed to have a tutor who looks over his work and revises it from 'time to time, but tho average man does not work half as hard as the American student and the education given is un doubtedly far below that of our chief uni versities. It is commonly said that mora study is Vrequlred In preparation for Oxford than fin the carrying out of the college course. The requirements are about the same as Jlor the classical course of Tale, Harvard or Princeton. Examinations, for instance, Imay be taken at home, and If a boy ha.6 a good foundation in Latin and Greek he Igets in without trouble. After admission lie attends lectures as closely or as loose tly as he pleases, the only requirement be ing that ho pass the examination. Half as Much. Study as "We Have. The university course of study Is prac tically only half as long as that of our colleges. It nominally runs for three years but each year is divided in half-, and nn. 'lialf of It the student spen.ds at home, or away irom uxiora. During this time he is supposed to be studying by himself, but this is more supposition than anything else. This leaves three years of six ponths each, or 18 months, for the col lege course. Our colleges require four years of at least nine months, or 36 months OF INTEREST TO downwards. Balls, ovals and leaf forms are still other varieties in form. Veal Croquettes. Veal being a dry meat, requires more ceasoning than other meat, but it makes a croquette par excellence. Part veal stock may be used in making the sauce. Chopped mushrooms are excellent, with either veal or chicken croquettes. Season the veal with salt, prepared celery salt, a few drops of onion juice, minced pars ley and lemon juice, using thd proportion of one cup of sauco to two scant cups of meat. The beaten yolk of one egg added to the sauce for veal croquettes is a great improvement. Chicken Croquettes. Season the same as veal croquettes, ulnlttlng tho lemon. Juice and adding but a drop or two of onion Juice. Meat -and Rice Croquettes. This is a most appetizing way of serv ing various left-overs. Take one cupful of chopped cold meat and six round table spoonfuls of cooked rice. If beef, mix with one cupful of brown or tomato eauce, the latter being suitable for any kind of meat or flsh. Minced parsley is appropriate with any kind of meat or fish croquette. Fiwh Croquettes. Tho same rulqs apply to flsh as to meat croquettes. A white sauce with the addi tion of an acid like lemon Juice or to mato is most appropriate. Half a tea spoonful of anchovy paste is an addition to many kinds of flsh croquettes. Lob Oriex, Collects CJhfafy Ceoil Rhodes in all, and It is fair to say that the Ameri can students gets In more hard study in one month"of this time than the Oxford man does In two. I have before me a book recommended by the head of the Bodleian Library, the chief library of Oxford, and one of the great libraries of tho world, giving reliable Information about the uni versity. According to this the average man here spends his day as follows: He gives his mornings to work, his at terriqpns to ulay and his evenings to such social recreations as please him most. He enter tains his friends at breakfasts, luncheons and wines, and often goes In for rowing, cricket and football, which are the chief sports of the Institution. I have talked with both professors and students, and as far as I can learn the men hero have much more leisure than in our American col leges, and to many of them a university course is more play than work. "Walk Through Christ Church. I can gi'o you a better idea of college life by taking you through one of these institutions. Let us visit Christ Church College. It has 300 students, and Is th richest and most aristocratic of the 23 colleges which make up the university. Tho others are much the same, only smaller, although every one covers sev eral acres and would be considered large outside of Oxford. The buildings of Christ Church, with their quadrangles, must have an area of 10 acres. The chief structure fronts on Cornmarket street, not far from the Thames. Its front Is longer than a big American city block, and with Its great tower at the end It looks more like a fort than a college. There is a gate in the center, with a statue of Cardinal "Wolsey above It and a stone tower rising over It At the gate there is a door keeper always oh guard. Ho closes the gate at night with massive doors and scrutinizes carefully all who go into the college during the -daytime. Biff Tom and the Oxford Curfew. In the tower over the gate isNthe great bell of the university. It is known as Big Tom, and It nightly rings the curfew of the university. The bell jwelghs eight tons, and its ding-dong can be heard for miles about Oxford. The curfew bell is rung at five "minutes past 9 o'clock. At this time the sound pf 101 strokes is heard WOMEN BEST SOLUTION OF UTILIZATION OF COOKED FOOD REMNANTS sr DISSERTATION ON CROQUETTES jT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 28 ster, shrimp, crab, oyster and clam meat makes delicious croquettea "With oystera and clams bread crumbs or chopped mac aroni are necessary to make the mixture Btiff- enough. Almost all kinds of cooked vegetables may be utilized in croquettes. Even cold cabbage, provided it has not been over-cooked, made into cannon-ball croquettes, may be made to servo as a pretty garnish and appetizing accompa niment to roast or boiled meat. Bread crumbs or chopped macaroni may be used to stiffen the mixture enough to shape. Rice Croqnettes. One pint milk, yolks two eggs, three round tablespoons sugar, one-half cup rice, one-half teaspoon salt, one-half tea spoon vanlla. "Wash the rice, put it in a double boiler with the milk, the salt and the sugar; cover closely and steam for one hour or till perfectly done; then light ly fold In the beaten yolks; cook two minutes, take from the Are, add tho vanlla and turn out on a plate to cool. A stewed date, a raisin, a candled cherry, or bit of jelly or preserve may bo tucked inside each croquette when shaping Ihe mixture. Coat, fry and serve hot with vanlla or cream sauce. Bread Croquettes. These make a nice dessert and' are but one of many ways of utilizing stale bread." "With two cupfuls of stale bread crumbs, mix tho grated rind of a lemon, one tea spoon of lemon Juice, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-halt cupful chopped Eng lish walnuts and the s'.lchtly beaten WFemSM WTn lu MMmM f JPEmfflflmm MP1" r Mtt&nded. "JTSpyt-c warning the students that they must bi in their rooms in the college, and that if they arcuot they will be flned and pun ished. As soon as the bell stops ringing the two proctors of the university start out with their assistants to look up recreant students. The proctors might be called the chief of the college police. They are uni versity men, and each has four assistants taken from the town people to help him, so that In all the pose of college police which makes its nightly round numbers 30. The assistants are called bulldogs they might be -called bloodhounds, for It Is their business to track down the flee ing undergraduates. The proctors first make their regular round of the blllard saloons and beer houses and warn the students that they must goIn. If they find a man on the streets without a col lege cap or gown they accost him with a question. "Do you belong to tho university? If the man answers "yes" his name and college are brusquely Inquired. He is asked why he is out without his gown and cap, and is ordered to go in at once and report without delay before the vice chancellors' court at 10 the next morning for fine and punishment. If he creates a disturbance .In the street or gets into trouble of any kind he is called before this court, and the man who Is out after 12 has a serious time with the authorities. Fines nnd Punishments. There is a regular scheme of flnes for being out late. Each college has Its own ponaltles, but In general the charge for absence between 9 to 10 Is one pence, be tween 10 and 11 twopence, and between 11 and 12 one shilling. The man who is out after 12 may bo flned one pound, 'or $3, or even more, according to the offense. Ho is also liable to be gated that Is, to be kept in the college after S o'clock every night for a week, a month or perhaps a whole term. The flnes for misdemeanors run as high as $23, and in serious cases the students are sometimes represented by counsel In college courts. The university has complete control over the students, and In many respects over the town of Oxford as well. The vice chancellor can order"bbjectionable persons to leave the city and can enforce, the going away of young women whose char whites of two eggs. Mix well, shape, coat and fry. Serve with wine or vanlla saute. ELLEN RAWSON MILLER. RECIPES BY MARION HAnLAND. Potted Herrings. Clean the flsh and cut off the heads and tails. To a dozen herrings allow two ta blespponfuls of salt, one of allspice, and one of saltpetre, one teaspoonful, each, of mace and of paprika. Powder salt petre, salt and spices finely and mix well. Rub into the flsh. Inside and out, and pack them down In It. In a covered dish or crock. Leave thus for 12 hours. "Wipe perfectly dry and lay In a buttered bake pan. Dispose among them three bay leaves and half a dozen whole cloves. Cut two tablespoonfuls of butter and scattor over them, cover closely and bake slowly for one hour. Let them cool In the pan without uncovering. Drain off the liquor, when they are quite cold; pack In Jars and cover with melted (not hot) butter. They will be fit to eat in two days. Keep in a cool, dry place. Bro-rrn Pudding. Soak six Boston crackers In a pint of hot milk until, soft enough to beat to a pulp. Add to this nllk and cracker mix ture two beaten eggs, a quarter of a cup of grated chocolate dissolved in three quarters of a cup of boiling water, tca-v spoonful of vanilla, and a quarter of a l. f fc3wZ fejggS JJ mggmjw May- rl f ll ITIIwy ti i ' JfflfcJF ""Evlijwf '-yK-XoST '' -Sr KmiMm College bunch&nltufyg acters tend to Injure the morality of the students. The officials can Imprison such characters and fine them, and they do their best to keep them out of Oxford. Inside an Oxford College. . But let us enter the gate under which Big Tom hangs. It is now noon, and the heavy doors are thrown back. "You. can see a wicket In one of them through which the doorkeeper looks at night and takes the name of the student who calls after hours and collects his fine. We piss on Into the quadrangle. This Is an Immense hollow court of about four acres, covered with grass, shaved as closely as though It were carpeted. There Is a fountain In the center and wide, well-kept walks ra diate from this to the main entrances of the buildings. This Is only one quadrangle of the Institution. Christ Church has five, but this is the largest and finest. The great stone structure about It is of only two stories, but the ceilings are so high that it has the effect of a four-story build ing of tho United States. The walls ace entered by arched doors much like those of a great vault. A wide stone pavement runs clear around the building, corresponding to the cloisters of some of the other colleges, and on this you may see students in black caps and gowns walking. Ttys many windows which look out upon the court have long boxes of flowers In them. These windows belong to the stu dents" rooms. Every man at Oxford ha3 a suite of two or three rooms of his ownv He has a bedroom, a sitting-room and a bathroom, and the colleges are so large that there Is no crowding. The- rooms are well lighted, but the heating of them is by grates. Student Life and Expenses. I made a number of Inquiries about the expenses of living at Oxford, I And that the American boys with their $1500 a year will be better provided for than the averago English undergraduates. Tho best authorities state that a man who Is careful can live at Oxford for JS00 a year, if ho has a home at which to spend his vacations. He Is at Oxford only six months, and this means an average of a little more than $133 a month. Some men cut down their college life to about $300 a year, but a great many spehd cup of sugar. Turn Into a greased pud ding dish and bake for half, an hour. Eat with sugar and cream. Strawberry Snorr. Soak a half box of gelatine In a gill of cold water. Press enough ripe straw berries through a vegetable press to make a pint of Juice. At the end of an hour stir Into the soaked gelatine a cupful of granulated sugar and a gill of boiling wa ter. Put. into a double boiler over the fire and stir until dissolved. Add the strawberry Juice, strain and set In a cool place while you whip a half pint of cream stiff. When the Jelly has. begun to form, beat into it the whipped cream and turn into a mofd. Set in tho Ice to form. Rice Cones. Cook together a tablespoonful of flour andone of butter, and pour upon them a cup of milk. Stlf until smooth. Have ready the yolksxof two eggs beaten stiff, and pour the thickened milk upon these. Now add a cup of boiled rice, mix tvell, season with salt and set aside to cool und stiffen. When stiff form into pear-shaped cones; wash these with white of egg and stand side by side in a baking pan. Set the pan on tho upper grating of the oven until the cones are browned. Send around with roast chicken or veaL i Salad plants . comprise a group which may be arranged under the head of ace tarrous plants. Some have long been known as common vegetables, and cooked and served as such, while others haie been regarded simply as weods by most native American The revised constitution of the Swedish Baptist church in Iowa forbids all its members- from belonging to s'ecret societies. more. The entrance fee at most of the colleges Is $23. In addition a deposit of $150 is required to cover kitchen and other fees. The matriculation fee Is $12 to, and It costs from $100 to $300 to furnish one's rooms. I have In this statement re duced the pounds sterling to American money. Each student has his rooms In the col lege free of rent, but he must have his own furniture. The. custom Is -to buy the furniture of the last occupant. The college has a professional valuator, who fixes the amount to be paid, and the In coming student adds such things as he pleases, and takes away such furniture as he wishes upon his departure. Many of the rooms arc magnificently fitted up. They have easy chairs and luxuriant couches. On their walls are fine pictures, and on the floors Turkish rugs. The students live In the colleges much as in a hotel. Each man has a servant, whom he shares with seven or eight oth-' ers. The servant is known as a "scout." He runs errands, takes care of the rooms and serves such of the meals as are taken In tho rooms. Each college has a common Jtitchen, where all the cooking Is done, and each has a common dining-room or banquet hall, where all the students meet In the evening for, dinner. In the hall there Is a reading desk, at which one of the professors stands and asks grace, and a platform with a special table for the dons or professors. The dinners are served In table d'hote style, at a fixed charge, wines and liquors being extra. In a College Kitchen. Tho kitchens of tho college' are among the curiosities of Oxford. That of Christ Chifrch has been In existence since the days of Cardinal Wolsey, and in it hangs a great gridiron which was used by the cooks of the cardinal. In entering it you pass by the cathedral, -which Is the chapel of the college. Tou go down stone steps Into the basement, entering a groat stone walled room, with a celling at least 60 feet high. At one side of the room is a fireplace large enough to roast an ox. before which fowls and meats are still roasted on spits. The fireplace Is so ar ranged that a dozen or more iron spits can be hung In front of it at one time, and as many as CO chickens can bo thus roast ed at once. In other parts of the room SOMETHING ABOUT EVERY mother "who stirs abroad with her little flock wishes to keep them first pure, then peaceable. Here are a few suggestions that may help. First, in planning the Journey have regard to the time of beginning and ending It. If It Is of 12 hours or longer, choose the train or boat fitting in best with the little people's bedtime. Snugly settled In clean berths they will sleep through what would other wise be trying hours, coming bright and refreshed to the Journey's end. "WlJi even one child It is best to take a section in a'6leeper, ,or a whole stateroom. "With a very small child have only the lower berth made up, thus giving plenty of air, with out the necessity of open windows. But with two children, even if one Is very small, put them below and yourself mount up aloft It Is so much easier to get up or down free-handed than to lift a sturdy youngster, or even a kicking lump of dim pled flesh and blood. If two sections must be takon leave the curtains loose, partly for air, but more for ease In getting in or out. Plan short journeys, as nearly as sched ules allow, to occupy the midmornlng or midafternoon hours. This does away with the terror of hurried breakfasts or lunches so strenuous that nobody eats normally. If It Is possible to let small children sleep before-afternoon Journeys, they will be In every way the better for It. Never let a. child start hungry, and never, never there are large ranges, steamers big enough to cook two sacks' of potatoes at a time, and all the accompaniments of the kitchens of a large hotel. Twenty-two cooks are kept busy preparing meals for the students. They dress In white, with white caps, and have their chiefs and subordinates. All the cooking for the 300 students of Christ Church College Is done in this kitchen, and the kitchen accounts of the boys are kept hero. The kitchen clerk has a day book and a ledger. He keeps to a cent what each student has, and gives him a memorandum at the close of each week, although payment Is not ex pected until the term 'following the one for which the account is rendered. As 1r went through the kitchen I stopped at the clerk's office and looked at the accounts. Food is given' at cost price, and the charges seem to me very moderate. The ordinary Dreakfost con sists of fish or bacon and eggs. The student is served with three boiled eggs and some bacon for about 25 cents. He gets a luncheon of cold meats for a little more, and his dinner In the common ban queting hall costs him about 45 cents. 1 give you here the menu for last night's dinner. Balled Haddock. Ptquanto. Sauce. Roast Muttong i Bteak and Kidney Pis. Minced Pastry. Wine Jelly. Extras: Asparagus, 1 penco; new potatoes, 2 pence; cream, 2 pence; sweet omelette, 6 pence. Drinking at Oxford. In addition to the charge for the reg ular dinner are the buttery bills, Includ ing the wine. Most of the students drink, wine, beer and whisky with, their meals. The college Itself furnishes a variety of beer and a mild claret, but most men keep their own stock of wines and liquors. I asked some questions as to the drinking habits of the colleges, and was told that the men as a rule are tem perate, although now and then one over steps his limit and becomes intoxicated. "Without a disturbance is made, however, such a matter would not be noticed. One of the most common forma of en tertainment in the college is the giving of luncheons and wine parties. There were 30 luncheon parties last Sunday In TRAVELING WITH CHILDREN HOW TO KEEP THE FLOCK PURE AND PEACEABLE sr SOME VERY SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS make It too fine and starchy for comfort. Better a less decorative arrival than one Uwith all your flock weeping in beribbonea and beruffled misery. Plain garments, pre ferably of smooth-surfaced stuffs, are no" less excellent for young travelers than old ones. A plethoric lunch basket 13 the root of much traveling evil. , Eschew lfT wholly. Children are very human If they know all sorts of things have been provided to eat on the train, they worn and worry until allowed to get at them. Contrariwise, If certain that there is nothing to eat, they will give their minds and hands much .more readily to some other form of diver sion. The candy box. and the paper bag bulging with fruit are worse, if possible, than the lunch basket. The one Justifica tion of the lunch basket Is a journey of such length as makes a meal necessary with no buffet-car, nor a stop where the eating may be done in reasonable comfort. Then provide in plenty the wholesome thing which can be eaten without mess ing. A little milk, packed in a small can of Ice, carefully wrapped up, can De car ried, but Is a little bulky, and unless there Is a little mite in the party, could be dispensed with. Have plenty of paper napkins, and In some corner a cup wltn a clean, damp sponge in it, to wipe hands and faces. Supply occupation and amusement for little hands and brains. But In the sup plying have regard to your fellow travel ers. Balls, marbles, "ops, trains of "choo choo" cars, horses on "wheels all things indeed which must go to bo amusing are Christ Church alone. At such lunch eons all tho delicacies of the season are provided. Including champagne and other liquors. The average kl,tchen expenses amount to 1, or $3 a week. Many of the students are high livers, and the ex nenapfl of a number of those at Christ ('Church range from $10 to $25 per week each. I In the Great Dlnlng-Rooms. I understand the students do not es- neclallv like the dinners in the banquets ing halls. This hall in Christ Church college makes you think more of one of the aisles of a cathedral than a dining room. It ha3 beautiful windows of stained class. Its walls are paneled In old English oak and it3 celling Is about 50 feet high. The room is 150 feet long and 40 feet wide, and Its walls are hung with portraits of the great men of the college. I noticed a fine portrait of Gladstone, of John Wesley. John Locke and of Lewis Carroll, the author of "AMce in Wonderland' among them. Another portrait was that of Dr. Fell, of whom you may remember the verse: I do not like thee. Doctor Fell, f The reason why I cannot tell; But this one thine; I know full well, I do not like thee. Doctor Fell. There are also portraits of King Edward VII. who was a student of Christ Church, of Cardinal "Wolsey, who-founded it, and of so many othera that it would Tequlra a column to mention tqem all. Famous College. Leaving Christ Church I visited many of the other colleges. At Magdalen, Addi son went to school and tho beautiful two mile walk about tho recreation grounds behind It is known as "Addison's "Walk." In Pembroke College you may see tho room which Samuel Johnson occupied and the desk on which he wrote his diction ary. At New College, founded In 1379, Sydney Smith was educated, and In Balllol Cardinal Manning. Dean Stanley and Mathew Arnold studied.,. Oriel College 13 especially interesting Just now, because It was the one which Cecil Rhodes at tended and to "which he has just giver $000,000 for improvements and repairs. Oriel was founded In 1326. It had anion? its students Sir "Walter Raleigh, Blsho? "Wllberforce and Thomas Hughes, the maa who wrote "Tom Brown's Schooldays it .Oxford." I might also speak of Brass nose College and others, but they are xll the same old and quaint filled with the famous literary ghosts of the past and the serious black-gowned mortarboard-hatted professors and tho gay young students of the present. Opinion of American Scholarships. It Is difficult to get an unprejudiced view of the Rhodes bequest and of the effect It will have upon Oxford. There are a large number of students and pro fessors who do not welcome this form of the American Invasion. Tho newspapers of tho country have pretty well discussed It. and there seems to be a general fear that It will shake up the dry bones of the university to the discomfort of tho easy-going people who now occupy it. At present about 600 students graduate from Oxford every year, and Of these three three-fourth take honors. The honors are of different grades, and It -will be strange If the Americans, picked men as they will be, do not get more than their proportionate share. I believe that the students are really afraid of them, and this thought Is strengthened by the un pleasant things said about us and tho Rhodes bequest in the several college magazines. I have before me the chief periodicals of this week. The l6ls refers Insultingly to AmericaJ saying,, among other things: "It must be confessed that to many Englishmen, and particularly Oxford men, the scheme Is unpalatable to a degree." The editors laugh at the Idea of the American papers asserting the hope that "no American will accept a dollar of Rhodes' tarnished gold," and add: "This seems an absolute ' Jest In the mouth of the American who too frequently adopts the Horatlan motto, 'Get money; honest ly if you can, but get it,' -and who ap plies the principle no less thoroughly to his football matches than to his stock jobbing transactions." Further on the Isls supposes the Ameri can character -will be Improved by an English education, and that this im provement will be beneficial to us, but it adds "that It does not suppose the rub bing the angles off uncultivated American youth was a matter of concern to Cecil' Rhodes, the empire maker." The Oxford Point of "View of this month has an article venturing that the founda-' tlon of the American scholarships may bo a mistake. It states that "the Americans are really our friends very little moro than the French or the Germans," and gocs'on to say that "where all sentiment al cant has been brushed aside the friend ship bctw een America and England will ba found to be wiat Aristotle terms 'a wat ery friendship,' " owing perhaps to the intervening seas. It says that the Ameri cans are foreigners, and intimates that they are not as welcome as the Germans. The 'Varsity .quotes a speech of Mr. D. L. Savory of St. John's College at tho Union Debating Society, tho chief one of the university, In which he says "tho American scholar would have too much money, and this hulking lout would set a bad example of extravagance." I might add other opinions, but I regard the most of them as mere froth and am prone to believe that the majority of the professors and students here are Inclined to be fair, and that when the young Americans do come they -villi be fairly treated. It Is to be hoped that the best of our young men will be sent, and If so I have no fear whatever but that they will more than hold their own. FRANK G. CARPENTER. (Copyrighted. 1002 ) out of place. So are games In which something needs must be flipped or darted. Instead of them, take such things as a pack of dominoes, a checker board, a dis sected puzzle, or some of the numerous word and letter games. Paper-weaving, cardboard work and braiding whips or col lars of strong, smooth twine, are all fas cinating. So is crocheting wavy soft wool Into doll hoods or slippers. And the very little tots find great entertainment in stringing big. bright, many-colored beads with a blunt-pointed needle. Keep peace. If possible; but if, after all. It is brpken, do not look miserably apolo getic over it. Only cranks and people born hateful fall to remember that,'they were children themselves once. Thus they make more than allowance for mother trlbulatldns particularly when-it Is evi dent that the mother has taken reasonable precautions against giving trouble. Our Work. Let us be content In work. To do the thing; we can. and not presuma i To fret because lt' little. 'Twill eroploy Seven men. they say, to make a perfect pin; Who makes the head, content to miss the point; Who makes the point, agreed to leave the Joint; And if a map should say. "I want a pin. And I must niake it straightway, m head and point." His wls'doai Is not worth the pin he wants. Seven men to a pin and not a man too much! Seen generations, haply, to this world. To right it visibly a finger's breadth. And mend its rents u UtUe. , B..B. Brownlmr.