The American Oxonian for October last, which has just been
published (Concord, New Hampshire : W. W. Thayer, 10s. a year), contains a pleasant tribute to Sir George Parkin, the late secretary of the Rhodes Trust, and an account of the visit to Oxford of the American secretary of the Rhodes Scholars' Society. Mr. Aydelotte noted that changes at Oxford continued " with a rapidity which is little short of dizzy compared with our conservative American institutions," and he expresses the hope that " no stress of numbers, no scarcity of funds, no pressure of Government control will ever make Oxford depart from her traditions so far as to conceive of education as a mechanical rather than as a human and personal problem." The magazine prints short accounts of the twelve American Rhodes Scholars who gave their lives in the war. Thus, Mr. W. A. Fleet, the first Rhodes Scholar from Virginia, enlisted in the Artists' Rifles in 1916, received a commission in the Guards, and was killed near Arras in 1918. The American Oxonian testifies to the affection which Oxford inspires in her American
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