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| AMERICAN YOUTH AT OXFORD.

WHAT THEY FIND THERE.

THE IDEAL ACADEMIC CROWN.

"In Oxford there are three non-Rhodes men to every four Rhodes scholars, and the latter soon will be outstripped.

LIFE ON MARS.

NEW SUPPORT FOR POPULAR. THEORY.

INVISIBLE LIGHT. “

At Phenix, Arima, photographs of the planet. Mars, made in invisible light, substantiate the belief that conditions permit of life existing there in forms similar to those on Earth, according to Dr. Andrew E Douglass, Director of the Steward Observatory, University of Arizona

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It seems that the present generation of American undergraduatca, as they near the end of their college course in the

Dr. Douglass-obtained the pictures United States, are not satisfied. They with plates that had been made sensitive resent the over-organisation of college to infra-red light rays, which are longer curricula which bow to the machinery than those of the red rays of the spec

trum and therefore invisible to the naked of modern business. They know that eye. although Oxford imposes physical re According to Dr. Douglass, the photo- straint, it allows academic freedom, graphs show that the dark areas in Mars whereas America exsets academic re can only be explained by vegetation. straint and allows the less essential phy. They also show clouds at a height of 14 sical freedom. It is less irksome to be miles in the Martian atmosphere, moving required to be within the college gate by at a rate of 18 miles an hour midnight than to be required to sit in showing the tendency of recent dis The above information is interesting through a dozen lectures a week...... ·

This new enthusiasm for an Oxford coveries to emphasize more and more the similarity between the conditions exist year, or two years and a degree, took its ing on Mars and those on Earth. It rise in the older colleges of the East, must not, however, be supposed that the which in many ways maintain somewhat new photographs can claim to have made closer: touch with Europe. From a new discovery or to have settled the before the war, Harvard and Princeton question of vegetation and alood on Mars have held the lead. At present Yale and, once and for all 1 1 Dartmouth are third and fourth in numbers.

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"GOLD IN 1922 PENNIES.

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CHANGING HANDS: AT 84. EACH. Thousands of Londoners are being de ceived by a tale which has gained a very wiue circulation, that the 1920 penny contains gold, says the Daily Mail. V

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Some people are buying these pennies at many times their face value. omnibus conductor said to a reporter that 10 pennies were being bought at his

garage for &8d. each.

The last one I had I sold for 8d.," he said I can get lod for any more I may have. They are very rare. 2--

"NO"GOLD" IK, 17.

An official of the Royal Mint exploded. the myth.

There is nothing abnormal whatever in the 1929 penny (he said). It is worth a penny and nothing more. There is no gold in it.

In 1929 we minted £12,000 worth of pennies; about 9 times less than the aver nous few years. There was a great sur- age value of pennies minted in the pre- plus of pence at that time

We were asked not to mint any more, and none has been minted since. The situation is becoming more normal and it is possible that pennies may again be minted in the near future.

We have ourselves received letters from people regarding the 1922 penny, Only this morning a letter came from a London woman asking if it was true that the 192 penny was worth la. 6d. We

A few lucky obrervations or partien larly good photographs will never decide While these four colleges constitute by themselves the true interpretation of about three-fourths of the non-Rhodes marking at a distance of more than 30 tell these correspondents that the 1992 men, there are signs that imigration from million miles They may prove the exispenny is worth just a penny. the West and South is increasing for tence of such markings; but only the & MACAO example from such larger universalica as study over periods of many years of the California and Virginia, from which geo-variations in the markings will enable ur graphical spread one may gather that to arrive at a true interpretation of their Oxford, apart from the Rhodes scholar nature, ships, is beginning to attract more then local attention.

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It always difficult on Mars to distinguish between those changes which really occur in the dark markings them-- selves and those which are due to the varying obscuration of them by over- hanging clouds in the Martian atmos phere. The work done at Mount Wilson in 1024, however, led the way to arriving at such a means of distinguishing.

FOX SURROUNDED BY 80 BABOONS.

MONKEY HILL. INVADED AT THE ZOO.

Just as the London Zoo's closing bell was ringing on a recent Sunday night a fox slipped out of his den and made for the aquarium Keepers gave the "view-halloo and the fox swung down wind right-handed.

Before the war, adds a writer in interesting article in the New Fort Times an American studied in Europe in order to gain preference as a pedagogue Now he goes. there-in order to return

THE NEW EXPERIMENTS: A home holding the world in the palm of

Finding himself hard-pressed, he his hand The intimate instruction and Red light passes through an atmosphere the Church services, no less than the like our own much more readily than sought for some way of hiding his scent. athletics, ingrain young Americans with bluer white light-witness the redness One sniff of Monkey Hill (with its 80 a beauty of tradition rarely conceived the apn at its rising and its setting, sacred baboons) decided him. He leapt of at home. Such an immersion is bound when it shines through a greater thick the low parapet and fell 12 feet into the in time to exert on the receptive a neke of air and has most of its blue light dry concreta most which prevents the healthy check to their American mania absorbed. At Mount Wilson, therefore, baboons from mixing with their betters for progress too often the progress that they photographed Hare through a red Then the baboons took a hand. First only retards.

screen and a blue one: the red photo-they were distinctly hostile, but the loz graphs showed the dark markings far had the wily tongue of a paid agitatory more clearly than the blue ones, and thus and the Baboons stopped to listen and showed that the dark marking were make friends. They formed a ring round situated actually on the planet's surface, the invader, and the scene would have and that Man had a definite atmosphere, inspired the ghost of Esop to write a

By photographing with yet redder light new fable.. invisible red light-Professor DouglasE has confirmed the results of Mount Wil- son: by showing that the variations in the dark markings are recorded on the red photographs he has shown that the variations are not merely due to the Page of overlying clouds.

And it is the receptive sort, those who will go back enduringly burnished with the cosmopolitan manner, who are in creasingly evident in Oxford and in Cam- bridge. These men will-return enthusias tic, to quicken America to somewhat more than a sightseer's interest.

Nothing that Oxford can give a man is to developing, so creative of inde pendence as are the weekly exercises in composition and criticism, talked over intimately, attacked and defended, in company with a physically torpid but mentally alert scholar who marshals his monosyllables and lets drive at his pupil magnificently well,

You are expected to read and by that means you sink or swim. If you would like guidance in certain of your reading, some of the lectures may supplement what your tutor himself points out, no thing more. And the crowning glory of the whole scheme is that your examiners at the finish, are not men who have had anything to do with teaching you.

THE UNION.

The new photographs, in fact, confirm other recent observations in indicating tt the seasonst changes in india markings are real." If they are real, it is almost impossible, as Lowell pointed out in 1894, to explain them on any other theory than that they indicate seasonal changes in vegetation like those, on Earth. >

Controversy is the life of Oxford. When you know him, the reticent Englishmanly has loquacity no end. Slowly the Amer cans, too, acquire disputations ease; too often atrophied at home. Toward this end of making good talk and talk good the celebrated Oxford Debating Union, with its weekly meetings often running to nearly four hours of wrangling enthusiasm is the perfect agent,

When the keepers came down with a long net on the end of a pole, the baboons turned quite unpleasant. They tried to prevent the removal of their guest, until one attendant showed them a paitful of food. All thoughts of alliance with the fox then vanished. While the baboons feasted the fox was netted and captured for the prisoner. He did manage to get in one bite în a keeper's

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A dastardly attempt to kill a fourteen- may mention that the colour changes, months old child in order to satisfy a which so impressed Lowell in their regrudge against its parents has led to the remblance to the metamorphosis of the arrest of Marie Bebourg, a seventeen- fresh greens of spring into the autumn year-old chamber-maid, employed by M. tints so familiar on Earth, were especial and Madame Villelle, of Grand Buisson, remarked on by M. Antoniadi, who near Mayenne. A reproach from her observed Mars with the great Paris mistress having roused her resentment, telescope in 1924.

she made the baby swallow two ordinary " SIGNIFICANCE OF CLOUDS. pins, which were evacuated, some days Among other recent observations which later, after the child had been seriously. tend to support Professor Douglass's ill. The servant was not suspected until view that the conditions of Mars and a week later, the baby again developing the Earth are similar, one may mention alarming symptoms, which led to the dis T the following results obtained in 1924. covery of another large pino firmly Dr. St. John at Mount Wilson showed stuck in its throat that its removal, oc spectroscopically the presence of oxygen cupied a doctor for half an hour. An and water-vapour in the Martian at exray examination has revealed the pre- What most American-students--End extremely discomforting at Oxford is the mosphere. Although they seemed to be sence in the child's stomach of another appareat reluctance of the English stu-present in much smaller quantities than large pin which, in view of the child's dents to making acquaintance with them on Earth, it is probable that the method tender age, it is deemed impossible to of their determination definitely under- remove by surgical means The servant It requires long patience and a deep estimated their amounts --

on being STTRcd made a full confession senso al adaptiveness for an American The measurements at Mount Wilson of her criminal action and its trivialed to reconcile himself to what he thinks and the Lowell observatory showed that motive is studied aloofness, che

the day time temperature of the planet True, Harvard and Yale men are not war roughly that of a cool bright day du so sensitive as the others. Tale man Earth. Lastly M. Antoniadi found has 19 friends and speaks to 14; a strong evidence, from the study of Mar Harvard man has four friends and speaks tian clouds, for the presence of cyclones to none of them. Either comes to Oxford and anticyclones, similar to our own, and is willing to wait, for he knows that in Mars atmosphere.

In talk the English love above every thing else to jab and parry with repartee, It whets their minds.

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New York, June 10th Richard Hose Whittemore, considered by the New York police to be the most formidable criminal- in the United Biales, was sentenced to-day to be hanged..

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But in general American students who puer have been used to saying- Hello

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equerry he drove to Padding Criminal Court at Baltimore, of murder- Oxford quads and fail They may have With

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cquerry turned into the in- from the Maryland Penitentiary in 13025, two hours very pleasantly, but that is nig by no means surety that this English spector's room. The inspector, who was Though only 27 years old, Whittemore The Prince, of was the leader of a gang which secured student will speak when next seen in writing, looked up, i the street. He requires really about 200 Wales, said the equerry. Over the more than a million dollars (£200,000) hours neighbourliness, and the best way railway bridge, second pub. on the worth of booty from banks and jewellers is to let him come and get it. He left! said the officer. The Prince, who in New York and 14 other cities before, will. Assuredly this manner is was following the equerry, heard the re not resentment against Americans as mark, and laughed heartily, The officer such

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