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OXFORD AS I SEE IT.

[BY STEPHEN LEMOCK. IN THE LONDON **MORNING POSr."]

WEATHER REPORT.

July 2nd, at 143-Warning to Hongkong, Coast Ports, &c. Depension or typhoon in Lat. 1 deg. N. Long. 129 deg. E direction unknown position, uncertain. kong, Coast, Forts, dc-Depression of July 23rd at 12.10-Warning to Hong, typhoon of unknown intensity within 180 miles of Lat. 19, deg. N. Long. 126 deg. E. moving N.W.

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In writing of the University of Oxford I may say that I am writing of some thing of which have absolutely first band information. My interest as a Univer sity professor led me, during my recent lecture tour in England, to make a

23rd, at 11.55.-Pressure has de- special visit to Oxford in order to submit ved slightly at all reporting stations. the place to a searching serutiny, Arriv-A trough of low pressure extends from ing one afternoon at four o'clock Into China to the east of Luren. stayed at the Mitre Hotel, tind ̈did not leave sinti rleven o'clock next morning. The whole of this time, except for one hour spout in addressing the undergrads uates, was devoted to a close and eager

study of the great University. When I add to this that I had already visited Oxford in 1907, and spent a Sunday at All Souls with. Colonel L, 8 Amery, it will be seen at once that, my views on Oxford are based upon observations, ex- tending over fourteen years...

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The absence of operations from Förmess makes the position of the typhoon uncer

15 is probably about 300 miles to the eat of X. Luzon moving S.W.

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Hongkong Ralafall for the 24 hours oading at 10 am, 23rd Jaly. 0.00 inch. Total since January tea, 31.38 inches, against an everage of 47.95 inches.

The forecast for the 14 hours ending at noon to-day is a follow-

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At any rate, I enry at least claim that Hongkong to Gap Rock to moderate, fair. my acquaintance with the British Uni- versity is just as good a basis for reßec- tion and judgment as that of the. nume rons English crities who come to our side of the water. I have known a famous English author irrive at Harvarit. Ca versity in the 'morging, have kruch with President Lowell, and then write a The Excellence of

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Higher Education in America." I have known another one come to Harvard. have lunch with President Lowell, and then write an entire book, on "The Beeline A Serious Study in America. Or take the ease of my own University, Treber Mr. Rudyard Kipling coming to McGill and saying in his address to the dergraduates at 2.20 p.m. You have here a great institution," could he have gathered this information? As far as I know, he spent the entire morning with Sir Andrew MacPhuil in |

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Formerly the Sommer Resort of the high Russian officers and officials, Yamato cigarettes. When I add that he distinct- Arthur. Hotel and 20 villas and bungalows, mostly with detached servants' quarters Excellently refused to visit the Paleontologic Bathing

Wonderful Scenery, Historic Battlefields. Ruined and Dismantled Forts Mile fo Aluseum, that he saw nothing of our new Walks and Drives. Abundant Pienicing Facilities. Orchestra-twice a week. hydraulie apparatus or of our classes in charting Best place for PORT

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attempted last autumn towards removing the ivy from the walls, but the result was unsatisfactory and they are putting it back. Anyone could have told them beforehand that the mere removal of the ivy would not brighten up Oxford, un- Jess at the same time one cleared the stone of the uld inscriptions, put in steel fire-escapes, and in fact brought the boarding houses up to date."

On the strength of fhis basis of experi; ence 1 am prepared to make the follow ing-positive and emphatic statements. It has a great past; it is at present the greatest I'niversity in the world: and is quite possible that it has a serraz fassen, | Oxford Truins scholars of the real type

better than any other place in the world.. Its methods are antiquated. It despises science. Ita lectures are rotten, It has professors whu never teach and students who never learn. It has no "ärder, no Arrangement, "no system. Its curriculum is unintelligible. It has no President, It has no state legislature to tell you how to teach. And yei-it gets there. Whe- ther we like it or not, Oxford gives some thing to its students, a life and a mode of thought, which in America as yet we can emulate but not equal. If anyone doubts this, let him go and take a room at the Mitre Hotel (teu and six for a wainscotted bed-room, period of Charles 1.), and study the place for himself.

These singular results achieved at Oxford are all the more surprising when ono considers the distressing conditions under which the students work. The lack of an adequate building fui compels them to go on working in th same old buildings which they had for centuries. The buildings at Wadham College have not been renewed since the year 1605. In Merton and Magdalen the students are still housed in the old buildings erected But Henry VII. being dead, nothing in the Fourteenth Century. At Christ was done. Yet in spite of its dilapidated Church College I was shown a kitchen buildings and it's lack of re-escapes, which has been built at the expense of ventilation, sanitation, and up-to-date Cardinal Wolsley in 1525. Jacredible kitchen facilities, I persist in my asser- though it may seem, they have still notion that I believe that Oxford, in its. other place to cook in than this and aro way, is the greatest University in the compelled to use it today. On the day world. i am aware that this is an when I saw this kitchen, four cooks were extreme statement and needs explana busy roasting an ox whole for the stud- tion. Oxford is much smaller in num- ents lunch: this at least is what I pre-bers, for example, than the State Uni- sumed they were doing from the size of versity of Minnesota, and it is much the fire-place used: but it may not have poorer. It has, or had till yesterday, been an ax, perhaps it was only a cow, fewer students than the University of On a huge table, twelve feet by six and Tonorto. To mention Oxford beside the made of slabs of wood five inches thick, | 24,000 "students of Columbia University two other cooks were rolling out a game sounds ridiculous. In point of money, pie

estimated it as measuring three the $30,000,000 endowment of the Uni- fect across. In this rude way, unchanged versity of Chicago, and the 835,000,000 of since the time of Henry VIII, the us Columbin, and the 843,000,000 of Harvard. happy Oxford students are fed. seen to leave Oxford nowhere. Yet the could not help contrasting it with the "peculiar" thing is that it is not nowbero. cosy little boarding houses on Cottage By some queer process of its own it Grove-avenue where I used to eat when I

seems to get there every time. It was was a student at Chicage, or the charm therefore of the very greatest interest ing little basement dining-rooms of the to me, as a profound scholar, to try to students boarding houses in Toronto investigate just how this peculiar excel- But then, of course, Henry VIII. never lence of Oxford' arises. |lived in Toronto.

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I has hardly been due to anything in The same lack of a building fund the curriculum or programme of studies.. necessitates the Oxford students living in Indeed, to anyape accustomed to the best the identical old boarding houses they had models of a University curriculum as they in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cen-flourish in the United States and Canada. turics. Technically they are called the programme of studies is frankly quite quadrangles," and "rooms," but I am laughable. There is less Applied Science so broken in to the usage of my student in the place than would be found with days that can't help calling them board us in a Theological College. Hardly/a ing houses. In many of these the old Single Professor at Oxford would recog^. stairway has been worn down by the nise a dynamo it he met it in broad day- feet of ten generations of students: the light. The Oxford student learns no- windows have little latticed panes, there thing of chemistry, physics, beat, plumb are old names carved here and there ing, electric wiring, gas fitting, or the upon the stone; and a thick growth of use of blow torch. Any American iry covers the walls. The boarding housd college student can run a motor-car, at St. John's College dates from 1555; take a gasoline engine to pieces, fix a the one at Brasenose from 1508. A few washer on a kitchen tap, mend a broken hundred thousand pounds would suffice to electric bell, and give an expert opinion replace these old buildings with neat on what has gone wrong with the furnace. steel and brick structures like the nor It is these things, indeed, which stamp mal school at Schenectady, NY.. or the him as a college man, and occasion a Peel Street High School at Montreal. very pardonable pride in the minds of But nothing is done A movement was his parents. But in all these things the

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