OXFORD UNIVERSITY
FOURTH SUCCESSIVE DEFEAT LONDON, March 24. The fourth successive defeat has revived the question: ‘(What’s the matter with Oxford?” Abrahams, the famous Cambridge athlete, says it is unprecedented for a university to lose the sports and the boat'race for four years in succession. Personally, he considers the healthy scientific atmosphere of the Cantabs far more coifducive to sport success than the spirit of taking life seriously, which is dominating Oxford. Another athlete ascribed effeminacy to Oxford. —Australian Press Associa talon.
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Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 4
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82OXFORD UNIVERSITY Evening Star, Issue 20134, 26 March 1929, Page 4
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