The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-12-06
OXFORD CAREER Of
PRINCE OF WALES
"Bo0kish the Prince Will
Never Be-
EQUAL AMONG EQUALS
Would Not Accept Any Tribute Elk
cept on His Merits-Played Foot
ball, Tennis, Golf, Racquets
and Rowed
EQUAL AMONG EQUALS

London, November 2o.-(Correspondence
of the Associated Press.)-The Prince of
Wales career at oxford-his studies. his
sports, his friendships-are described in
a statement given out by DIR. T. II. War
rem, president of Magdalen college. OK
ford
''Bookish the prince will never be,
says DIR. Warren, mot a Beauclerk, still
less a British Solomon. Kings. perhaps
fortunately. seldom are this last. But
the prince will not want for power of
ready and forcible presentation, either in
speech writing. All the time at Ok
ford he was learning more and more of
men, gauging character, watching its
play getting to know what Englishmen
are like. both individually and in the
mass"
The prince finished his second year at
Magdalen and was to have returned for
at least one more term had not the war
cut short his course. He arrived at OK
ford at IS years of age. DR.. Warren
continues:
Well Forward in Studies
He was well forward in the studies
and training of the navy, but naturally
somewhat newer to. and less directly pre-
pared for university life and studies than
the public school boy In a very few
weeks he began to find his feet and de-
velop rapidly. From the first he took
his own line, with equal modesty and
firmness. determined that he would be
really an equal among equals that he
would seek and accept no tribute except
on his merits, that he would take as
habitual and assiduous trouble to avoid
Difference and preference as others take
to cultivate it. His natural dignity and
charm and the good sense and good feel
ing of his college companions, enabled
him to go far In this resolve without
mishap.
He made wide acquaintance. His
rooms were more and more open to his
friends and his friends friends He
played football, tennis, golf, racquets: he
motored; he ran with the college boats;
he ran a great deal with the beagles he
shot at various country houses round
Oxford; he rode, for exercise, and to
hounds. In this last accomplishment he
started at disadvantage, but by real
perseverance and pluck soon made up
for it. He was withal a punctual and
diligent member, in the ranks, of the
officers training corps. He drilled, he
marched he went into camp like any
other private.
short; the career for which he was to
prepare was a unique one. Strict educa-
tional economy had to be practiced
French, German and English, especially
the command of literary expression in
his own language, were necessary for him
History, political economy. political sci
ence and constitutional law were desjr-
able
Friendship With Tutor
he eli orIx
fortunate in having at hand one of the
first living authorities in the late Sir
William Arson. Sir William at once nut
the prince at his ease and there sprung
up between them a friendship which grew
and strengthened every term Together
beginning with the British system, they
went through the constitutions of the
world. the prince reading and writing and
taking notes, and Sir William talking and
expounding.
Side by side with this, tho prince at
tended lectures on history, political econ
omy and political science. He also had
many special hours of instruction with
the university teachers of French and
German. He went for special tuition In
history to the college tutors In that sub
ject, and every week he wrote an Eng
fish essay for the president. Lectures
he chiefly attended In the earlier part
of his career. More and more as the
Llnl6 went OH ne lOunu init ne preferred
the Oxford system of private and indi-
vidual instruction"
OF the princes work in English compost
ton, which Dr. Warren himself super
vised, his teacher says: His essays
which at first were conscientious repro
auctions and compilations, became more
and more his own, both In thought and
expression. In the end, though not yet
20, and only at the age when many boys
are just beginning Oxford he acquired
a considerable mastery. Gifted with a
good verbal memory, freshness of view,
and decided Independence of character,
his essays, If not exactly literary, be-
came more and more interesting and elo-
quent or striking, II only in their genuine
sincerity and simple honesty.
Those who knew him well will agree
that few undergraduates, taking things
all around, get more, If so much, out of
two years. Oxford might have given him
a little more. The cumulative influence
of her studies and her life might have
deepened him still further, but he leaves
her. if young, already able to be. what
England expects, a force and factor in
national lifa