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Vol.13. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1905. No. 15.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
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WINSTON AT OXFORD.
Horner Winston Writes Interesting
ly to the News and Observer
of his Life as a Rhodes
Scholar.
Sunday's ' News and Observer
contains a letter from J. Horner
Winston regarding his lifeat Oxford.
The letter is exceedingly interest
ingespecially to University men,
as the writer spent his American
college life in this University
Hence we have taken the liberty to
reprint some of it here. ' Those who
recall Mr. Winston's article in the
Charlotte Observer early last fall
will observe that there is a consid
erable difference between the tones
of the two letters.
MR. WINSTON'S LETTER.
"The Rhcdes scholars have com
pleted their first term at Oxford
and spent their 'vac' of six weeks
scattered in all parts of the country.
Ten went to Paris, ten to Germany,
some stayed in London, two studied
at Stratford-onthe-Avon and two
went back to God's country. Eu
rope has had amazing exhibition of
American habits and American dis
regard of any fixed kind of custom.
"It is now a week before Hilar)
term begins, but every train is
bringing back to Oxford some strag
gling Rhodes scholar, and by this
time they are nearly all here, not
with any over-zealous desire to get
back to work, but for the simple
reason that they 'ain't got no hap
py home to leave,' and they can live
on credit at Oxford. Nor should
we be unduly censured for our
'busted' condition,., for nobody will
contend that there is any pleasure
to stay in an eight floor dark attic
aud watch your fire burn six weeks;
but to do otherwise means money
Well, the Rhodes scholars were out
to see the sights and have the fun,
and the result has been that, after
they had borrowed and reborrowed
from one another, until they had
nothing left, they had to deposit
their watches in London in order to
buy a railway ticket back to Ox
ford. And we were not extravagant
in our tastes, either. I believe what
Brooks, of Georgia, said one day in
Paris, best described our financial
attitude. We were sitting in a res
taurant and I was looking over the
'bill of fare.' I said, 'Brooks, do
ou want some 'bifteck and pomtnes
de terre'?' He replied no,; that he
didn't like 'em very much, and be
sides they cost eighty centimes. It
is needless to say that the last was
his main reason of refusal. To an
American, who is accustomed to
American college life, the yearly
benefice of $1,500 seems an ample
allowance, but the Rhodes scholar
vision of luxurious trips upon the
continent, fades into 'rustication
in rural England, when his term's
'Battels' are . presented. It costs
about as much to live one term at
Oxford as it does to live a year at
the University of North Carolina.
Our actual college expenses, pre
sented as a college bill, for the
two months of Michaelmas term,
just passed, amounted to two hun
dred and fifty dollars, and nf course
outside expenses were correspond
ingly high. There are three such
terms, which cover twenty-four
weeks of the year, and that leaves
twenty-eight weeks in which we
have to live somewhere. Don't let
anybody fool themselves that 300
is extravagance at Oxford.
"Well, Michaelmas term passed
off without 'anv undue commotion.
Englishmen continue to mi1e at
American roughness; Americans at
English softness. good-naturedly,
though, for they understand that we
don't mean any harm by talking
loud, and we. are beginning- to be
reconciled to their not speaking to
us on the street, for it is Oxford
custom. But for a man who doesn't
understand such things, it takes
very close study and much patience
to endure the Oxford man's way of
doing, and at first it went very much
against the grain not to be recog
nized by the man who the day be
fore -had invited you to breakfast
Men of the same college never speak
Lo each other, when they pass in
'Quado' or in the street. For in
stance. I was introduced to the most
prominent undergraduate of Brase
nose ouege. in tne room or mv
friend Brooks. When that fellow
passes Brooks- on the street, though
they are quite intimate, he doesn't
notice him; when he passes me,
though we are but acquaintances, I
am cordially greeted. He and
Brooks are in the same college, he
and I are in different colleges, and
that's Oxford custom.
"To the matter-of-fact Oxford
mercnant ana store-Keeper, tnese
wild talking Americans are still an
awfully unknovvn quantity, and
they apparently meet with no suc
cess in locating our category. Keif-
fer, from Maryland, went with me
the other day to buy a clock. I was
looking over the fellow's display,
and picking up one I asked him.
'What sort of clock that was?'
'That's a very good clock, sir,' he
said, but I couldn't recommend it as
a time-keeper.' Keiffer and I
laughed, and he said to the fellow,
'Would it be good to milk a sow
with?' The clerk looked puzzled
for a moment, and with all solemni
ty replied, 'No, sir, I don't think it
would do to milk with.'
"We find that the ordinary Ox
ford man is a studeut of world pol
itics and is thoroughly conversant
upon any problem of the day. The
outward demeauorof these fellows,.
which at first we thought indicative!
of childishness and effeminacy,
now discover to be the result!
habitual good health and even tem
per. lo oegin witn, every n,ng-
ishman is a first-class animal, with
a large frame and healthy body.
In addition to that they consider
exercise indispensable, and every
afternoon, rain or shine, men, wo
men and children, old an young
alike go to their game of some
kind. It is not at all unfamiliar .to
see and old woman with gray hair,
scampering across the field after a
golf ball.
"In athletics, every Englishman
is too good a participant to make a
spectator at a match game, aud that
accounts for the small attendance.
For instance, when Exeter College
of Oxford University, plays Trinity
College of Cambridge University,
there are scarcely a hundred spec
tators to see the game. Everybody
else has got a game of his own; he
is off somewhere on the river or at
another field playing 'Rugger' or
'Socer' or else following the 'Bea
gles'.
"At the recent great match in the
city of London, between Oxford
and Cambridge Universities in
which Oxford was ' defeated 15 to
10, there were only about six thou
sand to see the game, and very lit
tie enthusiasm was displayed. Oc
casionally somebody would yell out
Cambridge' and that was the ex
tent of the cheering.
Mr. Winston here states that all
but ten of the Oxford scholars have
to take straight Freshmen work
Half the time is vacation, but this
time must be spent largely at work.
There are no intermediate examina
tions; everything is stood off at the
endof the three years' course.
There are great . tales told by
these Rhodes scholars of what they
did and saw Christmas; but they
all say that they are glad to get
back to Oxford, for it seems at
least like a step-mother home, after
having been in lands of foreign
language. Indeed it is queer how
one's sympathies broaden the furth
er he gets from home. If you are
traveling alone up about Boston
aud learn that your neighbor on the
train is from North Carolina, that's
introduction enough and 3'ou are
friends on the spot. If you are sit
ting ina restaurant over here in
London and hear somebody remark
that he is an American, you feel
like he is home folks, even if he
lives in Utah. But if you net in
Paris, all you want to know is that
he speaks English and you are im
mediately ready to fall on his neck.
Several of us Americans were
standing in the Louvre Art Gallery
one day looking out across the
Seine, while the guide was jabber
ing along in French, explaining the
pictures. We were close to ' a
much of ladies who were speaking
English aud we all made up our
minds to meet them. We srot uo a
bet as to whether they were " Eng-
ish or American and I was! ap
pointed to find out. After apolo-
have fully gotten their bearings at
Oxford; they have been refreshed
by a six weeks' holiday, they real
ize the necessity for earnest work
and during the coming term they
may be expected to buckle to it.
Christ Church, Oxford. England.
iinziug to one of the girls for tuey.'g
Li
forward I asked her-
ould be so kind as to T I p
whether we were on this
the other side or the nver.j
didn't know, she said, bti,
would ask her mother.
The other fellows heard what
she said and I could tell from their
faces that they were fully convinced
that she wasn't American.
By this time the Rhodes scholars
University Magazine.
The latest number of the Maga
zine contains eighty pages filled
with a variety of matter. "The
Necessity of Compulsory Arbitra
tion in Labor Troubles" is urged
in well wrought argument, based
on the two propositions: "In the
first place, that present conditions
demand a settlement of the labor
troubles, because they grieviously
impair the continuous and harmon
ious work of these agents, aud
thereby injure our whole organized
life; and, in the second place, that
the best and only way to settle
these troubles is by compulsory
arbitration." "Across the Atlan
tic on a Cattle Ship" is a realistic
narrative by one faithful, ' both to
the cattle and to .the." demands of
Neptune. It is well "done, and
smacks of the voyagkv'
There are seVefa -ipries. The
best is "Bill Kea Jii Evelyn".
It is the old. stofc unrequited
love. The meetinjT.'jf Kent with
Evelyn, after the ten years of hobo
life, is fearfully intense on Bill's
part. Evelyn is a strange woman.
Bill's birth into the meaning of man
hood is certainly an unexpected
turn. Here an unusual type of
man and woman met, without eith
er making a sacrifice in the true
meaning of the term. The story is
of sustaiued interest throughout.
The poetry is rather dull, but
that will be apt to improve with ,
the return of spring the Irost
must give way to the flowers.
The editorials are written with
point and vigor. They are live.
But it must be admitted, that there
is hardly that dignity and tone ex
pected of a literary magazine. A
ceatain college journal is scored
heavily and justly for the "familiar,
free-and-easy appellation" in refer
ring to Teddy Roosevelt. Yet, the
editor falls into the same style and
tone before he gets through with
the aforesaid offending brother.
The editor of the other depart
ments seem to have taken hold with
a firm hand, and the Magazine is
still in the vigor of life.
Lemmert Coming.
Mr. Schellhase, representing Lem
mert. the tailor, will be hereon Feb.
9th, 10th and 11th. Students are
asked to remember that the Athletic
Association gets a commission on
all the work done here by Mr. Lem
mert: He has shown great interest
in athletics here, and not only pre
sented the Lemmert Cup, but con
tinues to share with the Association
his profits.
Several fellows went to Greens
boro last week to see "The Chorus
Girl".
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