Education: Manners & Morals at Oxford

Whatever else can be said about England's Oxford University, it does confer on its men an icy calm in the face of undue provocation. Items: >Oxford's Track Star Adrian Metcalfe. 19, was dumfounded at a suggestion that he join Arizona State College's track team. "I have written," said 1961's fastest 400-meter runner (45.7 sec.), "that I am at a university which was founded when their ancestors were in the trees. I have no idea what they might suggest I should study. It's probably handwriting." >Oxford's student magazine Isis was appalled when St. Hilda's...

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