Bisbee daily review., 1914-12-12
.ENGLAND'S FUTURE
 KING STUDIES HARD TIL CALLED BY WAR
Life of the Prince of Wales While at Oxford Proved Him to Be a Good Young Man if Not Brilliant.

his sports. his friendships are dc scribed in statement given out by Dr T II. Warren. president of Mag da en Collage. Oxford
 "Bookish the Prince win never be" says Dr. Warren, "Aot a Besuclerk, still less a British Solomon Kings. perhaps fortunately. seldom are this last. But the Prince will not want for power Of ready and forcible pre- sentaton either inspeech or writing. All the time at Oxford he was learn more and more of men. guaging char acter watching it's play, getting to what Eng ishmen are like, both in- dividually and in the mass"
 The Prince finished his second year st Magdalen and was Co have returned for at least one more term had not the war cut short his course He ar- rived at Oxford at IS years of age Dr. Warren continues;
 He was we'll forward in the stud ies and training O fthe Navy but nat urslly somewhat newer to. and less directly prepared for university life and studies than the public school ' boy In a few weeks he began to find his feet and dev9op rapidly. l From the first he took his own line, | with equal modesty and hrmness. de- termned that he would be really an equal among equals. that he would sock and accept no tribute except on l. his merits. that he would take as habitual and assiduous trouble to avoid deference or preference as oth- CTS take to cultivate it. His natural dignity and charm and the good sense and good feeling of his college com. panions enable him to 80 far in this resolve without mishap.
 He made a wide acquaintance His rooms were more and more open to bis friends and his friends friends He played football tennis. golf ,rac- uuets: he motored he ran with the college boats. be 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 perse verance and pluck soon made up fol gentmember. r.intheranlsreser-aI etaC it. He was withal a punctual and dil
 igent member, in the ranks, of tho l Officers Training Corps He drilled ne marched. he went into camp lik, . any other private
 "As to his set studies. his time wa - short; the career for which he was t' ? prepare was unique one. Strict odu B cational economy had to be practiced r French, German and English, espeC P tally the ommand of literary eXpres F sion in his own language. were neces ! sary for him. History, political econ omy political science, and consutu - tional law were desirable.
 "For this last study he was singy
 arly fortunate in having at hand on
 of the first living authorities in th
 late Sir William Anson. Sir Willlar
 at one put the Prince at hi sease an there sprung up between them
 friendship which grew and strengtl
 ened every term. Together. beginnin
 with the British system, they wen
 through the Constitutions of th
 word, the Prince reading and writin
 an dtaking notes, and Sir Willial ttalking an deXpoundiug.
 Side by side with this the Prime
 attended lectures on history, politici
 economy, and political science. II
 also had many speial hours of instru
 ton with the University teachers (
 French an deGrman. He went for sp
 cial tuition in history to the cOlleg
 tutors in that subject, and every wee
 he wrote an English essay for th
 President Lectures he chiefly a
 tended In the earlier part or his e
 reer More and more as time went Q
 he found that he preferred the ONfoI system Of private and individual fl
 strction."
 Of the Princes work in Englis composition. which Dr. Warren hin self supervised, bis teacher says; I'll essays which at first were console llOun itul DuuAlApAN flth NNiAtfA-ttNANi' became more and more his own, bot in thought and expression. i'm q end. though not yet twenty and on at the age when many boys are iu beginning Oxford he aquired co siderable mastery. Gifted Uith go, verbal memory, a freshness of vie and decided independence of chara ter, his essays. if not exactly litera became more and more interestI and eloquent or striking, if only their genuine sincerity and simp honesty.
 Those who knew him well w acrec that few undergraduates, takil 5 things an around get more if much out of two years. Oxford mig have given him a little more. T cumulative influence of her studi and her life might have deepened h sul further but he leaves her. young, already able to be, What Ef land expects force and factor national life.'