Oxford Men

Oxford Men Outgoing. Out of New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Rhodes scholars, bound for Oxford. They had attended a farewell dinner at the Harvard club, heard discussed a tentative plan of the Rhodes trustees to abandon the present method of selecting two scholars every three years from each state and substituting a method whereby the quota would be allotted from six to eight districts into which the country would be divided. The object: a more representative group of students. Details of the plan were not published, nor were the dinner speeches of President Frank P. Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, U. S. secretary of the trust, and Sir Philip Kerr, British secretary. From London, however, came a definite report: the Rhodes trust has increased the value of each scholarship from -L-350 to -L-400, effective this year.

Incoming. Into New York harbor sailed the 1925 detachment of Oxford debaters: R. H. Bernays, an Englishman; H. J. S. Wedderburn, a Scot; H. V. Lloyd-Jones, a Welshman. Each of the three was president of the Oxford Union (debating society) for a term last year. Each is already active in British politics. At Harvard and Princeton they will maintain that the growth and activities of the Socialist movement are detrimental to social progress." At Colgate, Bates and the University of Pennsylvania, they will denounce Prohibition. Elsewhere their proposition will be in regard to the World Court and recognition of Russia.