Excerpt from The American Student and the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford University: A Manual of Information

What appears in the following pages was gathered, for the most part, during a seven weeks' visit at Oxford, England, in the summer of 1903 for the purpose of finding out all I could in that time about the famous University located there. In my search for information I was treated with the utmost courtesy by the many persons - professors, undergraduates and citizens - to whom I made known the object of my visit. My thanks are especially due Mr. J. Gilbert Wiblin, B. A. of Jesus College for many kindly suggestions and for an account of the more important doings at Oxford in recent months.

Like all others who desire to become acquainted with Oxford University, I availed myself also of the indispensable help afforded by such books as Alden's "Guide to Oxford, " Wells's "Oxford and Its Colleges, " Brodrick's "History of the University of Oxford, " Gardner's "Oxford at the Cross Roads, " Andrew Lang's "Oxford - Historical and Picturesque Notes, " Corbin's "An American at Oxford, " Dyer's "Oxford as It Is, " "The Student's Handbook to Oxford University, " "The University Calendar" and "The Examination Statutes."

It would, of course, be presumptuous for me to suppose that in this pamphlet there are no errors of any kind, because the "Oxford System, " being so anomalous, is very puzzling to us Americans and because the more than twenty colleges differ from one another in many respects though having much in common. This, however, may be said with truth, that the author of this pamphlet has tried to make it a manual of reliable information for the use of those American youth who may aspire to become Rhodes Scholars at Oxford.

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