NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The students wear their caps and 
- gowns and the formality of the meal 
is broken only when the faculty ad- 
- journs to the Senior Common room 
and the students to the Junior Com- 
mon room for coffee. After a pleas- 
ant hour spent here the students go 
to their rooms for study, if they are 
so inclined. Their are two grades 
of degrees at Oxford to fit the two 
grades of men, who attend. The first 
is the passing degree, which is for 
those who are going to the univer- 
sity because a gentleman must have 
an education, and the second, the 
honor degree, is for the men, who 
have gone there to really study. The 
environment of Oxford is noted for 
its beauties of nature and it seems 
small wonder that Oxford men like 
their social pleasures, as well as their 
regular athletics, out-of-doors. The 
greatest social event of the year is 
the races on the river, when the 
boats, which cannot possibly pass 
each other owing to the narrowness 
of the river, ‘‘bunt.’’ That is, one 
boat overtaking another, bumps into 
it and accordingly is given an ad- 
vanced place the following day. 
A great contrast to the English 
university was the college at Canton, 
China, Mr. Libby spoke of Canton 
as the most interesting city which he 
had ever visited. The quaint sedan 
chairs, with their strong, swift coo- 
lies, the extremely narrow streets 
with their little shops, holding 
unique treasuries of jade, embroid- 
eries, or wonderfully carved ivory 
ean be found nowhere as at Canton. 
The- college, which Mr. Libby vis- 
ited, is called the Canton Chris- 
tian college and is strictly undenom- 
inational. The dean, who spent a 
year in America, has recently been 
made commissioner of education for 
the whole district of Canton and he 
is trying to introduce many new 
ideas for the uplift of the young 
men of China, who must help to form 
the new republic. Mr. Libby spoke 
very strongly on the feeling of China 
and Japan towards America. Both 
nations, he said, feel that America 
is their best friend, in spite of all 
the steps taken against Chinese and 
Japanese immigrants into this coun- 
try, which have been. taken lately. 
Mr. Libby expressed it as his be- 
lief that if there ever came a war be- 
tween the United States and either 
of these two nations, we shall have 
provoked it, as their feeling is wholly 
friendly toward us. 
The Roberts college in Turkey was 
spoken of as a great factor for pro- 
gress and true education in that 
Progressive 
Rally 
Manchester Town Hall 
Wednesday, Oct.30 
B o’clock 
Several well-known speakers including a good 
woman speaker. 
Women GOME---and Bring Your Husbands ! 
country. Here are youths of many 
nationalities learning new languages 
and new studies every year. The re- 
sult of such a cosmopolitan assembly 
in one college must work for the ui- 
timate good of Turkey. The col- 
lege grounds are very different from 
the other universities, which Mr. Lib- 
by had visited. Robert college is sit- 
uated on the Bosphorus just above 
Constantinople and the surround- 
ings are very beautiful. The mas- 
sive buildings form a great contrast 
to the spires and minarets of the 
great Turkish city, which can be seen 
against the horizon just across 
the Bosphorus, at Scutari, is the Wo. 
man’s college corresponding to Rob- 
ert college and here, too, is a most 
cosmopolitan throng of girl students 
and women teachers. The head of 
the college is a Wellesley woman and 
until very recently,.when some .of the 
college graduates have been added 
to the faculty, nearly all of the tea- 
chers have been American women. 
The college, which Mr. Libby men- 
tioned as the last in his talk, was, he 
considered the most beautiful col- 
tege in the world. This is the Syrian 
Protestant college at Berute. Its 
grounds lie close to the Mediterra- 
nean sea. The grey stone buildings 
in their environment of wonderful 
gardens and palm groves offset by 
the blue Mediterranean make it a 
place to be long remembered by a 
visitor and never forgotten by the 
student there 
Mr. Libby’s talk met with enthus- 
iastic applause and all were gen- 
uinely sorry to have the address, 
which was so unusually interesting 
to everybody, come to a close. Mr. 
Mackin announced the last number 
of the program, which was another 
song by Mrs. Alice Lee entitled 
‘“Blanket Bay.’’ At the close of the 
program Mr. Libby met many of the 
audience and then the company met 
the social committee, consisting of 
Albert Cunningham, chairman, Mrs. 
G. A. Knoerr, Mrs. Healey, Mrs. I. 
W. Floyd, Mrs. Chester L. Crafts 
and Miss Folson.. Tea and fancy 
crackers were served, 
