The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1902-05-21

The unique will of Cecil Rhodes, CIV
ing to every state in the United States
two scholarships in the University or
oxford of $1,000 year each, has ere
ated wide interest in the famous old
institution, and it is not hard to find out
in Philadelphia what student life and
work at oxford is like, for number
of Philadelphians went there In their
youth, says the Philadelphia Times.
Barclay III, Warburton, owner of The
Evening Telegraph, went there; Barton
Willing, the brother-in-law of John ia
cob Astor, went there; the late Ellis
Ashmead Bartlett and his brother VIII
liam Ashmead Bartlett, who married
the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, were Ok
ford men; the Rev. Frederick Burgess,
formerly rector of st. Asaph's church,
at Bala, and now bishop Of Long Is
land, is an oxford man, and so also are
E. Cholmeley-Jones and Julian Story.
Oxford is admitted to be architecture
ally the most beautiful spot in Eng
land. 1t lies between two rivers, the
Thames and the Cherwell, a great ar
ray of spires, towers. quadrangles ana
ancient buildings, carved with sump-
tuousness such as is not seen TO-DAY.
1t has gardens and lawns incredibly
well kept, and it is over 800 years old.
Here is a list of all its colleges, with
the dates of their several foundations;
All Souls. founded in 1887; Balllol'
1882; Brasenose, 1909; Christchurch'
1925; Corpus Christi, 1925; Exeter,
1914: HEREFORD, 1874; Jesus, 1911; Ke-
rble. 1866; Lincoln, 1927; Magdalen
pronounced Maudlin), 1856; Merton,
1864; New, 1880; Oriel, 1924; Pembroke
.(after which Pembroke hall, at Bryn
Mawr college. is modeled), 1924;
Queens, 1910; st. Johns, 1855; Trim
itv, 1856; University, 1249; Wadham,
1909; Worcester. 1888. Then there is
Il & BodIeian library, founded in 1872,
" hich has had the right since 1910
Il ough this right, of course, it has not
il variably used-of getting without
D yment a copy of every book publish
in the United Kingdom.
rhe young men who go to this aged
and beautiful place go there as their |
vn masters. They may work or idle,
FIR there are no Rotations, and the
e laminations, save those for honors,
e not hard. If the young men are
Americans or If they are extremely |
r ch or well born. they go to Christ
lurch. That is the fashionable col |
l. ge. the one to which the royal fam
and the great peers sons go.
Afterward, for his matriculation, he |
1 kes an examination that is called the |
little CO." or ''respOnsiOn." Then he |
t kes "mOderatiOns, or mods" then |
q livinity school," then the great CO."
hich gives him his degree. The "di-
nifty school, examinations are very
L lrd. The other examinations are easy,
nd a great latitude is permitted to the
udent in the subjects which he is
{ xamined in. But these are the "pass"
purses. those taken by young men
\ no desire a degree and nothing more.
he "honor" courses, on the other
and, are much harder than any OF
nose of American colleges.
Each college at oxford is distinct in
{ self and varies from its neighbor col
,ges in it's rules, yet all are under one
cad. the vice chancellor. 1t is as
lough Yale, Cornell, Harvard and
pennsylvania, without changing their
.yays, should unite in West Philadel-
, hia under Provost Harrison. West
Philadelphia then would be a younger,
: ttler Oxford.
The undergraduates wear in hall
nat is to say. in the refectory-their
APPS aud gowns, and they wear them
$50 at chapel and at lectures. In hall
ley have pleasant time, eating stump
uously. with beer from the buttery
nd with wine now and then. The dons
il at one set of tables, the undergrad
otas according TO their wears, at an