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A MONTHLY MAGAZINE. V .
Lmxmerron, KY., FEBRUARY, 1901. 4
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‘ From Factory To Fellowslup,
  AN EDUCATIONAL nouaivon. . _
~   "There are times," says the London Daily News,  
  ‘“when unmitigated fact is stranger, not to say more in- ¢
  teresting, than the most romantic pages of sensational _ i
  fiction. The Oxford University Gazette, published on xl
  Friday, December 21, 1900, contains (p. 239) the follow- `
  ing brief but not insignificant paragraph :
    "Pembroke College.
fj? Joseph Owen, B. A., Balliol College, has been elected
  to a Fellowship at Pembroke College." p A
  That is all; but to those who know what is behind this · ”~
[_ T brief, but pregnant announcement, the simple words con- .
, Af vey a message full of encouragement and hope. The i
  paragraph represents the academic crown of a very re- {
Q  markable career.  
A i Six years ago Joseph Owen was earning his living in L
‘ f one of the many mills at Oldham. A keen co-operator, ’ "
U he had availed himself year after year of the opportuni- \,
-. ties of higher education put within his reach by the local Q
  Co·Operative Society, acting in conjunction with the {
JT'? _ Oxford University Extension Delegacy. For a dozen f
  years or so, the Oldham co-operators have arranged for ”?
V _;Q__i . an annual course of extension lectures from the Oxford g _
* University authorities. History has formed the staple `,_,
_- of these courses ; history, not of the dry-as-dust type, but
i,`_ interpreted by men like the Rev. W. Hudson Shaw-
  men who are at once genuine scholars and gifted with  
·`_. the power of popular exposition. Not that these Oldham  
  lectures were "popniar" in anything but a good sense.
  The superior person who scoffs at University Extension
. would be amazed if his superiority allowed him to read
through the syllabuses of some of the lecture-courses de-
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