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"There is but one telephone in Oxford University" said Mr. K. K. M. Leys, exchange tutor from University College, Oxford, in his address last night at the Faculty Reception at the Harvard Union. "We have no lift anywhere in the college, and if there is such a thing as a card-index I have never seen it." He said that to one coming from as old a University as Oxford, the organization of an American college such as Harvard seemed "powerful and rather terrible."

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