-
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.