The Oxford Plan Attacked

Our present way of looking at Oxford as an educational millenium was given a severe jolt by an article in The Dartmouth by John Hurd, Jr. '22, an instructor of English at Dartmouth, who graduated from Oxford with honors. He attacks the Oxford system for the boredom and indifference which 30 years of monotonous repetition forces upon even the best tutors.

For cutting the mystically hazy aura which has enshrouded the charms of Oxford's weathered stones and deeply rooted ivy, we are grateful. There has been too much affected anglomania in our seats of learning. To Mr. Hurd Dartmouth and Harvard have achieved the ideal combination of American environment and English methods; the brisk efficiency of our group methods has been well mated with individualism for upperclassmen.