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Oxford University is composed of no less than twenty-one separate colleges, all of which have their own officers and buildings and are situated in various parts of the town, each college consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir...
...meeting, there was one side of our nature which science was the only means of cultivating. Our present system of secondary education demanded, it seemed to him, the careful and serious attention of parents, and, if not watched, would constitute a real danger for the country. He observed that Balliol College and New College, to whose co-operation they were so greatly indebted, had very wisely made it a condition that the instruction which they gave should be literary as well as scientific. He could say, "Would that all our education was scientific as well as literary." There, however...
...College, eight scholarships are appropriated to Hereford Grammar School, five to Manchester, five to Marlborough, and the examination is made at the schools by Cambridge examiners. In like manner at Oxford, at New College, six scholarships each year of L80 a year are secured to Winchester School at Balliol, ten "Snell" scholarships are given annually to Glasgow University ; at Christ's Church, three each year to Westminister ; at St. John's, fifteen are awarded to Merchant Taylors' School (London) after open examination by Oxford examiners at the school. I could mention many more, but this may suffice. No students pass...
Prof. Jowett, master of Balliol, Oxford, and translator of Plato's Dialogues has written to President Eliot urging that some arrangements be made in regard to American students coming to Oxford...
...case may be. Some live at Oxford, some come there only at intervals to deliver a lecture or two, and then go away. Some are appointed for life, some for a longer or shorter period, as it happens. The professor of poetry, now J. C. Sharp, M. A., of Balliol, is appointed every ten years. This professorship has been held among others by Keble and Matthew Arnold. The professorship of fine arts, now vacant, was filled a short time ago by Mr. Ruskin. To the university lectures the men of the various colleges come up indiscriminately. Beside the providing...