Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...means of reducing expenditures, there is rather an obligation to increase them, and all this while the loss from agricultural depression is great and the future clouded with uncertainty. The proposition was that the payments of the undergraduates be raised from pound1 per annum to pound2, the master of Balliol remarking that what the undergraduates had gained was not to be measured by pound1 or pound5 or pound10. It was adopted in congregation by a vote...
...admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical conditions. We cannot, even at Harvard or Balliol, hope to bring back those conditions. . . . The preface contains, perhaps, the briefest and most lucid account ever yet given of the nature and aims of the Greek drama, and of the functions of the chorus." Mr. Lang, himself a graduate of Oxford, gives us a glimpse into the results...
...Balliol is now the largest of the Oxford colleges...
...RICHARDSON, '80, formerly an editor of the Crimson, has entered Balliol College, Oxford, at the bead of all applicants for admission. He was given the best suite of rooms at the disposal of the college...