Sellars was a competitive athlete in college and won a Rhodes scholarship, which took him in the fall of 1934 to Oriel College at Oxford, where he enrolled in the PPE program.  W. G. Maclagan was his tutor, and he came under the influence of H. A.  Prichard and H. H. Price, and, through them, Cook Wilson.  He took first class honors in 1936 and returned that fall for a D. Phil., attempting a dissertation on Kant under T. D.  Weldon.  While at Oxford, he also met his first wife, Mary Sharp, who was born in Yorkshire and to whom he was married in 1938.  Unable to articulate his new interpretation of Kant sufficiently well to complete the degree, Sellars returned to the U.S. in the fall of 1937, entering the graduate department at Harvard and passing his prelims in the spring of 1938. 