Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1902-11-14
AMERICANS GO TO OXFORD.
Some students from the United States
Take Course at the English
uniyersity.

The few Americans who are now to
be found al Oxford and Cambridge are
of two classes, says the London Speak
er. There are the CONS Of rich men al
fected by more or less acute form OK
Anglomania, who are often more Eng
6sh than the American dergraduates
themselves. These may be ignored, for
they will not want to participate in
Mr. Rhodes scheme. The second class,
and it is very small one, consists Of
the sons Of English-born parents who
have settled in America but wish to
maintain English traditions. The
sons themselves, possibly do not, but
believe that nearly all Tie new schol-
arships will go to Americans the tradi-
.ions OF whose families are largely
English.
have never heard of pure-bred
American who came to Oxford Groom.
bridge merely because he thought, or
MS parents thought, that lie could get
.. betetr education at those universi
ties than he could get at home. And
[ believe that the pure bred Am erican
with no English AK to grind who would
come to Oxford for his degree, and
then go back to his own country, will
be as rare when Mr.. Rhodes scheme
comes iaio effect MS he is new. But,
In any case, the result will be the same,
for, whatever their fathers may be,
American sons of English parents Gre
as American as anybody. and they are
not likely TO forget their nationality
when they find themselves at Ok
ford
You will have, then, in Oxford, a
hundred young Americans, glorying in
their nationality, glorying, that is. m
being unlike the ether young men
who now, to use phrase. own the
place They will bring with them
ideas of what university life should be
like, drawn from their lncwledce of
what university life Is in the United
States They may be very goad ioeas,
but they will not be the issss of Ok
ford. The americans will form them
selves into a society and will try to
push those IDEAS, and they viii not do
it very quietly, for those are tie ways
of young AMERICANS. Tie men who
own the place will resist tLcai, very
tcnacicusy at first. and with ia'rsuse
scsorn and dislike. And t.erc will
probably be good deal tf trouble.
which viii bind the newcomers still
more closely together. Finally, ] be-
lieve that the American IDEAS of what
thoroughly up-to-da:e university
should be Ike socially will make way,
and Oxford will to some extent be
America nized.
Superstition Hard to XIII.
For more than millennium Engla nd
has been Christian nation, yet in the
mussum at Oxford we see images.
brist'ins with rusty nails and needles,
which demonstrate tho lste survi.a of
n belief in sympathetic mage, in the
rural comm mites whcE4e these oh-
iects came. Within The university ii
self secured desiccatcd specimen OF
a fauliar vegetable which an officer
Of one OF the colleges had carried for
Years as preventive Of rheuma tisml
Neither centuries OF enlightenment nor
the revolutionary changes of this
progressive age have ex.erminated
sucn beliefs. They even adapt them
selves to the new conditions. as in the
case VI the lady living within the
shadow OF the walls OF Harvard uniyer7
sity, who maintains that carbons from
arc lamps arc n sure preventive of
neuralgia journal of American Folk
Lore.