Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-07-20 | Page 8 | U. S. Scholar Slams Oxford

ju u S SCHOLAR SLAMS OXFORD Unmasks Pretense of Famous English School LONDON LONDO July 19 13 Oxford Ph W university has found a subject for heated dl n JI a a speech made recently by a Rhodes scholar cholar from the United Stites tes W C Greene of Rhode Island a graduate of Bro Brosin II university Mr l Greene Green was wast t to a toast proposed by Rudyard Kipling at the th annual din din- dinner din dinner ner nor at Oxford of ot the Rhodes Schol Schol- Scholarship Scholarship Scholarship Trust I 0 d and Europe said Mr Mc Greene as ns reported in the th Daily Maii rall ha hate e brought death to us ot of I our nur dreams dream our romance and our ourI hopes that here tie e w find throb sears ars of life of continuous I strangeness and duty is dead in us and the Iho unbeautiful buildings of 0 Ox- Ox Oxford Ox Oxford ford have hav become b conie old fashion ed buildinGs buildinG's and ond oftentimes pris pris- prisons pris- pris prisons ons both bolh of ot the tho soul and body i fOI food d his hs not been ben Elysium nor has our experience of the th conti conti- conti continent continent nent UD L I But But two totO things thins have hav come to toa toa toa a good many of us u We Ita hase e eIe Ie at ned the plain old fashioned old prehistoric antediluvian lan jo ot of II just t do down dosin n We Ve W have como come cometo I to tc see a that Idlers and Idleness of 02 the body are not terms of con con- contempt contempt contempt tempt The Th prime prim minister of ot England represents to many of us the thing Oxford O has ha brought to us rightly or wrongly Here Her we have sot sat down frequently sometimes Intense reverence at the th too foot of the th grizzled figure of y We Ye base hav come corn to see ee the Iho need ot of the th new towards peo- peo peoples peo peoples ples pIes and people toward towards the tho th state slate We o 0 go home many of us with the secret hope that some soma som day we sie c may enter the politics of our own coun country try and perhaps breith In tho the tholow slow low of or our nature the recognition nillon of the social truth which has been enunciated so many times and so o vainly during the las last 2000 bears ears ear we e w Ith our lounger cars ears though older one ones seem often unable un-ibl so o to do docan I Ican can he heat har I LIKE TO IJO GO Was We v do dolot lot pot go homo horn with lIh re- re regrets re regret grets gret Whatever er mn ma mai ha hate hav 0 been the unexpressed desires desire of Cecil Rhodes in laying the th foundation of If It hp he h meant u us to 10 lose lov e another nation If It he h meant tin 18 10 to become becom of that lt great creed for which Mr tr I has labored so 80 long Ions and no 80 o find finely e must mut deny his hi hopes Oxford and England and Eu- Eu Eu rop Eu-rop rope ropo ha hate e only made mad us u love lov Amet Ic Amei-Ic Ico ica more moro We W become more Amer Amer- Amerteen teen e esery very cry day that thai WI a aie ie e hero here I ii e 0 are aro ar sick of acro across th the e seas seas- sea Long ago we resigned our po- po position po position as an unofficial ambassadors We Vo go TO home horn gladly and eagerly to toa toa toa a nation which we w know and love and understand if often we w cannot admire It It W go home horn with some som appreciation appreciation of duty and appreciation of human life lit Some Som day perhaps p some somo of u us IU may amount to some some- something thing ome-thing thing If It the th life of f idleness has hoa not become too tron strong