Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15

Prepared by National Geographic Society.
Washington. d. C.-WNU Service.
THE prince of Wales recently
opened the splendid new $780,
900 extension of the Taylorian
institution at Oxford university,
thus adding another unit to the
already pretentious group of build
ings that make up one of England's
famous institutions of learning.
Oxford is. perhaps, the best known
In America of all foreign unlver-
stiles, owing to the Rhodes scholar
ships, granted since 1904 under the
will of the late Cecil j. Rhodes,
South African magnate. Each year
80 American college students, usu-
ally graduates, are selected on the
basis of their records in American
colleges and a personal interview,
aud are awarded a three years
scholarship at an Oxford college.
An equal number are selected from
the British commonwealth and the
colonies of the empire. In all, about
200 Rhodes scholars are In resi-
dence at Oxford each year.
Rhodes, who believed that event
ually all the English-speaking peo-
pies of the world would make COM
mon cause, hoped through these
scholarships to produce leaders for
his dream.
One hears unsympathetic observ-
ers at Oxford refer to the Ameri-
can Rhodes scholars at the univer-
sity as "the last of the a%ristocrats,"
implying that they, too, often band
together and keep themselves aloof
from their fellow undergraduates. A
difference In age and different
heritage of interests, hobbies, and
traditions do make fusion, even
orientation, difficult.
Most of the Rhodes scholars with
whom one becomes acquainted al
Oxford are of a fine type-friendly
helpful, a bit reserved, as perhaps
might become a national of another
country, and studiously inclined
Some of the American Rhodes schol
ars have been elected to 0xford's
most exclusive social and literary
clubs and societies, and most OF
them have enviable scholastic and
athletic standings during their resi-
dence at the university. The Rhode;
idea may be said to be fulfilled t.
the extent that mutual understand
Ing has been fostered by the contact
and conflict of youthful ideas Of
representative members of the Eng
disappearing nations.
Why Americans Like Oxford.
Twenty-Five years have elapsed
since the first Rhodes scholars ar
rived at Oxford. On the evening
of July s., 1920. a considerable mum
Der of that group attended thu
trustees dinner In the Hall o
Rhodes house, on South Parks road
Nearly all the 900 guests were OLE
Rhodes scholars. The largest mum
Der were from the United States
but there were some who ha'
come, for this event, all the wa,
from such distant lands as Soutl
Africa and Australia. Stanley Bald
win presided md the prince o
Wales, as principal speaker, pro
posed the health of the Rhode
scholars.
In addition to Rhodes scholars
many other Americans are attract
ed to Oxford by the unrivaled re
sources for research afforded by tn
Bodleian library. and also becaus
the atmosphere of the city Is cor
duclve to literary and academi
work. Oxford is a mecca TO
American college professors and In
structors on sabbatlcal leave.
In contrast to American schools
Oxford's lectures have relatively III
tie Importance. No attendance rec
0rds are kept and an undergradu
nte might possibly go through hi
entire course without attending
single one. The real check is tn
tutor, to whom the undergraduate
is Immediately assigned upon hi
arrival and to whom he must repor
at least once a week for assign
ments, recitations and informal dii
cusslons. The tutorial system a
lows for much greater d%evelopmen
of a students natural bent and II
dlyiduality. but II is practical onl
where the number of students Is nc
large. The average number of stt
dents at an oxford college is abou
200. In the regular course of events
examinations do not come until nea
the end of the second year of res
dence, and everything depends upo
the showing made In them.
The teaching staff at oxford cor
sists of university professors, reaC
ers, lecturers and demonstration
numbering more than 100. and abou
300 college fellows, tutors and lex
turers.
AS In the case of American an
versIties, there are faculties Ieas