Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-31
MUCH LIKE SOCIAL CLUBS
In Some Gases Great pulp is Neces.
sary for Admission.
SOME OF THE CURIOUS CUSTOMS
Undergraduates Must Be Within the
Gates Of Their institution When
the Bell Ceases to Ring.
BY WILLIAM e. CURTIS.

Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
Herald.
There are only sixty-two professors in
all the faculties Of the twenty-three COL
leges of Oxford University, which COM
bined make up group Of several hundred
OF the most learned men In the world.
The British people use that title with rev.
erence Over here BARRIERS, dog trainers,
morse breakers, hypnotists, sleight-of- hand
men and chropodists are called "profes-
sor. a misuse Of honored title which
horr1hes the rest of the Englsh-speaking
race. They reserve it for the most learned
and eminent men. The faculties of the
colleges of Oxford are sometimes called
doctors when they have received high
degrees, but are generally addressed as
mlsters' In the college publications
they are claSsed as deans canons instruc-
tors, fellows and scholars At All Souls
College there are no Scholars" At Mer-
ton College they are called ..postmasters:"
at Christ Church the instructors are called
students" and at Magdalen the tutors
are called denies" Each college has
Its own terms, and each differs from the
others in several peculiarities.
The head of Christ Church College is
called DEAN The heads of Exeter and
Lincoln Colleges are called "rectors;" at.
Or1ei. Worcester and Queens they are
called ''provosts;" at Balliol, University
and Pembroke they are called masters"
at Jesus, Hartford, Erasenose and St. Ed
munds they are called principals" at
Trinity, Magdalen, Corpus Christi and
st Johns they are called presidents" at
New College, Merton, Wadhem, Keble and
All Souls they are called "wardens.'
Dr. Osler who went over from Johns
Hopkins last year, is a real professor"
and Is recognized as one of the biggest in
the bunch. He is regius professor of medi-
cine in Christ Church College, succeeding
the late Sir John Burden-sanderson. The
chair was founded by King Henry VIII
All chairs founded by him are known as
regtus professorships." DR.. Oser. how
ever, has charge Of all the medical in
struction at oxford University and is Civ
ing public clinics at the Radcliffe Infirm-
airy, which are attended regularly by every
medical student, by the local surgeons
and by several students from the medical
colleges in London, who come down espe-
cially to witness them. Several enthusi-
astic disciples have followed him over to
Oxford from Johns Hopkins. He has been
the hero of the year. He was given a
splendid reception; was Immediately made
member Of everything worth belonging
to, and was offered share In everything
that is good.
DR.. Osler has just bought himself an
attractive home at No IL Norham Gar
dens. on the outskirts of Oxford, and will
be settled in a few weeks
Declined to Take Degree.
One Of the learned dons told me that
they were very much disappointed because
DR.. Alexander Graham Bell of Washing
ton did not come over to receive a degree
last June. He declined an invitation on
the ground that he must attend to some
experiments in kite-fying in Nova Scotia;
hence there were no Americans on the list
of honors. President Eliot of Harvard is
the only other man in America who has
declined such an invitation. He mas twice
excused himself, and 1t is the impression
in Oxford that he fears that he may be
insulted by the students at the ceremony,
I'd
Then occurred very unpleasant episode,
which the good people at Oxford would
gladly erase from the history Of the uni
versity. They insist that 1t could not pos
sibly occur again, and that the university
authorities were in no way responsible for
1t. The disorder was the result Of a con-
spiracy on the part Of certain high church
men who objected to Mr.. Everett because
he was Unitarian.
There was funny skit passing around
on Mr.. Choate, lately United States am
bassador to England, when he went up to
Oxford for degree two years ago. 1t was
at just about the time that the first Amer
lean students appeared under the Rhodes
trust, and the story goes that the master
of Ba1liol went to sleep at an after-dinner
concert at which Mr.. Choate was his guest.
When the music ceased the learned don
awoke suddenly, looked around in a be-
wildered manner. without realizing where
he was, and seeing a strange man sitting
by his side, asked Mr.. Choate If he was
one of the new Rhodes scholars.
Every one of our American ambassadors
for many years-Lowell Bayard. Hay,
Choate-have been honored with degrees by
Oxford University, and l suppose Mr.. Reid
will have his chance.
The sixtytwo professors at Oxford are
divided among the various faculties
thirty-one in the arts, twelve in natural
sciences, six in medicine. six in law and
seven in the theological schools.
Students at Oxford.
Oxford does not encourage numbers like
our American Institutions 1t endeavors to