The American Oxonian Volume 5

Excerpt from The American Oxonian, Vol. 5: The Official Magazine of the Alumni Association of American Rhodes Scholars We may hope, too, that the experiences of the War will drive home to members of the University that don and undergraduate are fel low-workers for the same cause. In some Colleges in the past the senior members of the College, settled in Oxford for life, tended to live their lives as a caste apart, feeling no sympathy for and asking no sympathy from the passing crowd of undergraduates. This is a car dinal error. The friendship of a good tutor can do far more for the education of his pupil than any instruction he may give. And the friendship of the younger men helps to keep the tutor's mind sane and vigorous. The Visits of our soldier pupils during the War have pointed a way for the advancement of the social life both of the younger and the older members of the University. Before the War there was a lamentable tendency at some Colleges for the old Oxford custom whereby the high table repaired to Common Room to drink port to be more honored in the breach than the Observance; in other words, the social life of the Fellows of a College was tending to dis appear. It is to be hoped that after the War Common Room life will be restored, and that by the more frequent presence Of undergraduates at wine it will be used as an opportunity for increased intercourse between teacher and taught. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.