Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05

In Wonderland" among them. Another
portrait was that of the DR.. Fell of whom
you may remember the verse:
81 do not like thee, Doctor Fell.
Inc reason why l cannot tell:
But this one thing know full well,
DO not like thee, Doctor Fell.
There are also portraits of King Edward
Va, who was student of Christ Church;
OF Cardinal Wolsey. who founded it. and Of
so many others that it would require a
column to mention them all.
Famous Colleges.
Leaving Christ Church I visited many Of
the other colleges. Each has it's students
VINO have made names in English litera-
ture, in finance and in other ways. At
Magdaien, Addison went to school and the
beautiful two-mile walk about the recrea-
ton grounds behind it is known as "Addi-
sons Walk"
In Pembroke College you may see the
room which Samuel Johnson occupied and
the desk on which he wrote his dictionary.
At New College, founded in 1879, Sydney
smith was educated. and in BalIiol. Car
dinal Manning. Dean Stanley and Mathew
Arnold studied. Oriel College is especially
interesting just now, because it was the one
which Cecil Rhodes attended and to which
he has just given $4,000 for improvements
ana repairs Oriel was founded in 1926. 1t
had among its students Sir Walter Raleigh
Bishop Wherefore and Thomas Hughes,
the man who wrote TON Browns School-
days at Oxford" I might also speak Of
Brasenose College and Others but they are
all the same-old and quaint-filled with the
famous literary ghosts of the past and the
serious black-gowned mortarboard- hated
professors and the gay, young students Of
the present.
The American Scholarships.
1t is difficult to get an unprecedented view
of the Rhodes bequest and of the effect 1t
Will have upon Oxford. There are a large
number of students and professors who do
not welcome this form of the American in
Vasion. The newspapers Of the country
have pretty wen discussed it. and there
seems to be general fear that 1t will
snake up the dry bones Of the university
to the discomfort Of the easygoing peo-
PIE VINO now occupy 1t. At present about
Soo students graduate from Oxford every
year. and of these three-fourths take hon
OTIS, Inc honors are of different grades
and 1t will be strange if the Americans
picked men as they will be, do not get
more than their pfoportionate share he
neVe that the students are really afraid of
them, and this thought Is strengthened bv
the unpleasant things said about US and the
tnoues request in the several college mag
azines. l have before me the chief period
icals of this week
The Isis" refers insuItingly to America.
SAYING among other things:
n
Englishmen. and particularly Oxford men.
the scheme is unpalatab to degree
The editors laugh at the idea of the Amer
lean papers asserting the hope that mo
Amerlca9 VIII accent a dollar of Rhodes
furnished gold" and add: This seems an
absolute Jest in the mouth of the American
who too frequently adopts the Horatfan
motto.'Get money: honestly if you can,
but get it, and who applies the principal
no less thoroughly to his foot BAH matches
than to his stock-jobbng transactions"
Further on the Isis" supposes the Amer
lean character will be improved by an En-
gllsh education, and that this Improvement
Will be beneficial to us, but it adds that it
does not suppose the rubbing 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 foundation
of the American schola rships may be a mis-
take. 1t states that ''the Americans are
really our friends very little more than the
French or the Germans" and goes on to saw
that where all sentimental cant has been
brushed aside the friendship between Amer
lea and England will be found to he what
Aristotle terms "a watery friendship ow-
ing perhaps to the intervening seas 1t saws
that the Americans are foreigners and in
Inmates that they are not as welcome as
the Germans
The Varsity quotes speech of Mr. n r.
Savory of st. Johns College at the Union
Debating Society, the chief one of the uni
Versity, IN which he says "the American
scholar would have too much money and
this hulking lout would set a bad example
of extravagance."
might add other opinions, but 1 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 Ameri-
cans do come they will be fairly treated.
1t is to be hoped that the best of our
young men will be sent, and if so | have no
fear whatever but that they will more than
hold their own.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.