Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-02
OXFORD PROFESSOR TALKS
OF PRINCE OF WALES
Describes His Studies. III. sports and
Friendships While mt
College,

Correspondence OF Associated Press
LONDON. December 20.-The Prince
OF Wales's career at OXford--his
studies. his sports. his fricndships-are
described in a statement given out by
Or. Il. II. Warren. president OF Mayda-
len College, oxford.
"BoOli sh the prince never will be-"
says DR.. Warren. mot a Bcauclerk.
still less British Solomon. Kings. per
maps. fortunately. seldom are this last
But the prince will not want for power
OF ready and forciblc presentation.
either in speech or writing. All the
time at oxford he was learning more
and more OF men. gauEing character
watching its play. getting TO know
, what I:nglishmen are like, both indi-
riduaily and In the mass
The prince finished his second year
at, MaSdalen. and was to have returned
Tor at least one more term had not
the war cut short his course. He
rived at Oxford at eighteen years OF
age DR.. Warren continues:
He was we'll forward In the studies
ana training or the navy, but naturally
somewhat newer to and less directly
prepared for university life and studies
thaH the public school boy. In very
few weeks he began to find his feet
and develop rapidly. From the first
he took his own line, with equal mod
esty and firmness. determined that he
would be really an equal among
no tribute except on his merits; that
he would take az habitual and assidu-
Gus trouble TO avoid Difference or pref
erence as others take to cultivate it.
His natural dignity and charm and the
good sense and good feeling of his COL
lege companions enabled him TO go far
in this resolve without mishap.
He made wide acquaintance. His
4, rooms were more and more open to his
friends and his friends friends He
played football. tennis. golf. racCucts:
he motored; he ran with the college
boats: he ran a great deal with the
beaglcs: he shot at various country
houses round Oxford: he rode. for ex-
crcise. and 30 hounds. In this last ac-
complishment. he started At disad-
vantage. but by real perseverance, and
pluck soon made up for il. He was
withal n punctual and diligent member.
| in the ranks. of the Officers Training
Corps. He drilled, he marched. he went
into camp like any other private.
AS to his set studies. mis- time was
short; the career for which he was to
! prepare was a unique one. Strict e1u-
cational economy had to be prac,iced.
! French, German and English especial.
| ly the command of literary expression
in his own language were necessary
| for him. History. political economy.
| political science. and constitutional
! laws were desirable.
! For this last study he was singular
| ly fortunate in having at hand one. of
the first living authorities In the
| late Sir William Arson. Sir William at
/ once put the prince at his ease. and
there sprung up between them n friend
| ship 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 ex-
pounding.
side by side with this, the prince
attended lectures on history. political
economy, and political science He also
! had many special hours of instruction
with the university teachers of French
and German. He went for special tut
! ton In history to the college tutors in
| that subject, and every week he wrote
an English essay for the president.
! Lectures he chiefly attended In the
earlier part Of his career. More and
more as time went on he found that he
| preferred the Oxford system of private
and individual instruction"
| OF the princes work in English com
| position. which DIR. Warren himself
supervised. his teacher says His es-
says which at first were conscientious
reproductions and compilations became
more and more his own, both In thought
Il and expression. In the end. though
not yet twenty and only at the age
when many boys are just beginning OK
! ford. he acquired 4 considerable mas
! terry. Gifted with q good verbal
memory. a freshness of view. and de-
| cided independence of character his
essays. II not exactly literary. became
more and more interesting and eloque Mt
or striking. IL 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 little more The cumu-
lative influence of her studies and her
| life might have dccpcned him still fur
| Their. but he leaves her. If young al
ready able to he, what English en-
poets. force and factor In national
| life"