ENGLISH ARE DISAPPOINTED AT DECLINE OF ENROLMENT

English educators have expressed disappointment over the steady decline in American enrolment at Oxford, since Englishmen in general have hoped that Anglo-American amity might be further developed through the presence of large numbers of Americans in British universities.

Actual figures show that the current American enrollment at Oxford has dropped to 168, as compared to 266 in 1922, and 203 last year.

Oxford has failed completely to attract the type of American student who was common in the German universities before the war, partly because of the coastlines of an Oxford education and partly because the university does not readily give nor highly honor the degree of Doctor of Philosophy so much prized by the American teaching profession.

Of the American students other than the Rhodes scholars few remain at Oxford for the full course of three years. Modern Oxford is frankly disappointing to many Americans, for it is changing rapidly from a quaint town to a large and noisy one. The hand of the nineteenth century fell heavily upon its heritage of beauty and atmosphere, and the twentieth is no kinder.

The woods and fields that a century ago lay just outside the college gates are now laid out in monotonous brick suburbs and great industrial plants, and in this dull mess of modern buildings the University stands as a tiny oasis of gray stone and green gardens.