Portal:University of Oxford/Selected quotation/43

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Sons of Oxford have been among our greatest Empire builders and Empire rules... The tone of the place—its ideals—its merits and defects, are felt wherever the British flag flies.

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— George Robert Parkin, The Rhodes Scholarships, 1915

Source edit

Morris, Jan (2009) [1978]. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford University Press. p. 310. ISBN 9780192804075.