Foreign News: King v. Brains

Though His Majesty George II was deposed in 1924 as King of Greece, he is still a Royal Prince of Denmark, his fatherland. Therefore the press of Copenhagen was flustered and appalled, last week, by news that George II would appear in public debate at Oxford, England, before the famed undergraduate Oxford Union. Most unseemly to Danes seemed the subject to debate:

Resolved: that this house prefers athletic to esthetic education.

Worst of all, from the Danish standpoint, George II took in debate, st week, the affirmative side—exalting brawn over Brain. To joyous Oxford...

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