THE COMPLETE OXFORD.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 2715, 7 August 1923, Page 2

THE COMPLETE OXFORD.

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge was fond of making speeches, and in his anxiety to be all things to all men he was occasionally a trifle too unctuous; — “A specimen of his style and of his manner is afforded by his speech when responding for the University of Oxford at a banquet given to celebrate the opening of a new college hall. Archbishop Tait had responded for Balliol College, and Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, speaking} for the University, said in the course of his remarks: —

"The most reverend prelate, in spite of his far more exalted position and infinitely superior eloquence, has on this memorable occasion only been called upon to respond for a part, while I, in every respect his inferior, who cannot claim to excel in a single one of the accomplishments, with which he is so lavishly endowed, I, my lords and gentlemen, have been asked to respond for Oxford as a whole, and , my lords and gentlemen, what a whole Oxford is!” “It took him a little time to understand the reason for the laughter that ensued.”