New-York tribune., 1909-04-04

turbans and American pants, some hahsoii
cabs drove of pigs judge ciao III se''
robes sitting in a gilt coach with oulrlueis' anu
after him motor cars containing paIFls'e1s Al
silk hats You step out of the way OF loap
of cabbares ana run into the vice-chancellor
preceded by the macebearer with his SILVER
poker and infinitely solemn air. and threading
through the maze Of traffic at this time of the
wear YOU see constant stream Of bare-eggeo
youths all making toward the river.
CROWDS WATCHING THE BOATS
.Torpids" have been almost fashionable
this yeal as "eights." Certainly crowds OF
people turned out every day 10 see the races
The harges-those gay. old-fashoned sal'eYs an
chored along the river side. according 10 the
sporting precedence OF the coIleges-Chris'
Church first then Balliol then New college. and
SO ferth-were full of bluff papas and tomooN
sisters who came 10 see how brother BOD puIleu
stroke. 1t was a more critical and less orna-
mental audience than the ''eishts' mob crush
The students themselves supplied. most OF the
color-lashing about in sky colored SOCKS OF
scarlet blazers or in the royal purple jackets
Of New College There was. as usual. great
GROVE. Of runners on the towpath. and, in spite
OF the fact that from an American point Of view
there is very little noise or cheering during the
race. Won can never fail TO ne thrilled as you
see the first boat appearing around the bend OF
the river and the molten mass Of runners pour
ing over the lriGge aid speeding along heside
the crews wtrh shouts and rattles and bells ana
ristoI sbots-pistol sh.ts as signals 70 let the
crew know hon near they are 10 the next boat
how near they are TO making bump the
great point Of the race. The toHpath Is uh-
doubtediy blessed means OF expression 1t Is
a Fundamental! joy to run With the crowd and
-Tl,- rfr71r Naf
makes the small boy Of the slums run seven
miles behind q fire engine causes the stately
Fellow of Queens College TO cast of his mas
ter's gown. don shorts" pick Up vatchman's
rattle and make for the river with veil
prominent figure on the towpath this year
was Mr.. Temple, 4 son of the famous Arch
bshop Temple. The son is Fellow. tutor,
and = great influence among the undergraduates
in religious and socialstic matters II was hard
TO realize that the stout, gallopng. muddy legged
bare kneed shouter with dinner bell was the
grave orator who had been speaking the night
before at the oxford Union. But so it was.
oxford prides itself on giving uniform develop
ment on all sides.
If the Torpids are good place to see the
Young barbarLans at play" there hardly be
better way of feeling the intellectual temper
of oxford than attend a Union debate The
Union. as most people know. is the famous de-
batting society OF the undergraduates. sort OF
Dolls House Of Commons from which many
young men go to the real House at Westmin-
ster 1t at the Union that Gladstone made
reputation that brought him almost directly
from college TO Parliament. The walls Of the
Union are covered with pictures OF past presi-
dents. among which the noble forehead Of Lord
Salisbury takes the eye at once. In the presence
Of memories like these young and struggling
orator may well feel nervous as he rises to ad-
dress the house, even If he were not already
conscious Of the keen and scornful students
seated opposite him-an ready TO let loose
delicate ana fiery shower Of darts.
ENGLISH DEBATE BITES,
Fo~ TO send this show er of darts. to cover an
opponent with ridicuIe to scar him with light
irony. is one Of the great exercises in English
debate. II is not easy to do really. certainly
harder TO command than an array Of brute facts.
dull and unpersuesive or the tapping of wings,
appeal to higher methods" as the rhetoric books
call il with which d speaker often tries TO spell
bind his audience. Sarcasm and = most ex-
quisite poteness form the typical tone of
young oxford orator the sort Of well bred
cruelty" that one feels everywhere in the writ
ings f Matthew Arnold
on the night that Mr Temple spoke the debate
OF the question Of offering scholarsbirs for
Workingmen. who might become eligible BY pre-
sentng a certain number of papers on economic
topics and passing examina ton in history
sociology and kindred subjects Mr Temple and
young idealsts. socialists and radicals. were
for opening oxford 10 the working cIass-tbe
new great factor in society which has been ad-
mitted to the House of Commons and is fnfiu
encing ali institutions oxford once was for
churchmen alone, and opened its gates to the
mobiles only when the Renaissance made then,
eager for education. Now another great
movement has brought the workingmen clamor-
ing for highland Oxford must give it,
At this beautifully thin young aristoorat
arose, quivering with scorn, and denounced the
idea as impossible. There were plenty of col
! leges where a working man could be educated
Bristol and Birmingham and so forth. An OK
ford education vas not useful for Working
man; it was meant for the professional classes.
arship far more than working man. Few
were so unhappy people ont OF their own
place. working man at oxford would be as
pathetic the honorable observation-disclosures
ing the elegant STRIPPING in the chair-would be
railway porter.
And after him marvellous child in evening
clothes and little bob-tailed bombazine gown
and having head like Shelley's quoted bitter
words from Ecclesiastes and said that knopI-
edge was only a burden. anyway and we had
all better not be educated. As the sprichtIv
editor of the university newspaper said We
. could forgive the speaker for saving such i'm