EDUCATION OF THE PRINCE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1707, 26 March 1913, Page 8

EDUCATION OF THE PRINCE.

• CONVERSATIONS ON CURRENT . ' EVENTS. • It is understood that the Prince of Wales , has so greatly onjoyed . his first term at Oxford and has received so. much valuable knowledge and 'experience. that the extension of his one year's residence into two is under discussion. It happens that Oxford possesses at present a number of; donS who aro very far removed from tile don of common report—that is, a man so absorbed in his academic subject as to Ixs out of touch with the world. It is also becoming the habit of some of the leaders of thought in Oxford t to take more trouble to instruct by intercourse and conversation'as well as by lectures, which are. at the best formal, if not, as some hold, rather barren.

In tho spirit'of this change, which it is to be hoped his example will do much to encourage, the Pr'uce of Wales pays a weekly visit to Sir William Anson, Warden of All Souls, with th» set <(0311., of discussing the current .events, uf the" week, It would be difficult to imagine a better method of education for u Prince, or King that the culm and philosophic discussion of the politics of the kingdom and Empire,in the classic atmosphere of All Souls, in the company of a mail who has had both political and academic experience and has an international reputation. To his. skill in modern language, which is considerable, the Prince is adding greatly by his study of past history and lr'story in the making; and it happens fortunately that there is now a quite exceptional school of historians gathered in Oxford. All tills, added to tho Prince's cn.ioj ment of the undergraduate life centred in his beautiful rooms in tho old quad, of Magdalen ( has snggested the idea, of considerably extending tho one year's residence, at first meditated, and of postponing tho Prince's direct acquaintance with an Army regiment to a later date. At Winchester College 011 February 11 the second eleven of Magdalen (Oxford) played th« second clevtn of Winchester, and the insrdo right of tho-Magdalen team was the Prince of. Wales. The result was a, draw, 3 goals each.—"Daily Mail."