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...example of the ordinary work done by the Oxford athletes, we may quote some of the records made at the recent Christ Church College sports, records which it will be interesting to compare with those of American colleges. These were: 100 yards, 10 3-5 sec.; 1/2 mile, 2 min. 2 sec.; mile, 4 min. 45 sec.; 1/4 mile...
...Courtney of St. Paul's Church, Boston, will address the St. Paul's Society at their rooms. 17 Grays, last evening at 7.30. All members of the university are cordially invited to be present...
...several years. Nobody, at any rate, expects, barring accidents, that the contest will repeat Oxford's last year's victory of twenty lengths. The odds are again on the oarsmen of the Isis; partly, no doubt, because they have once more as stroke Mr. L. R. West of Christ Church, who occupied the same position in Oxford's victories of 1880 and '81. The light-blue has a heavy and powerful crew, of whom much is expected, though thus far their stroke is considered hardly equal to that of their competitors. The race is admitted, however, to be a doubtful...
...York Sun says Harvard had 319 undergraduate students in 1853, of whom only thirty were returned as church members, while among the present 928 there are said to be 300 professed Christians. A graduate who is a resident of Cambridge says: "One wearies sometimes of hearing the perpetual outcries against immoralities of Harvard undergraduate life. It seems as though exaggerations must have occurred in some of these stories...
There is no system of church attendance at the University of Pennsylvania, but there are chapel services every week day, Saturdays excepted, at 10 A. M. The nature of the exercises is very simple. There is reading of the Scripture, followed by a prayer by a professor appointed to take charge of the services for the day. This is followed by declamation by members of the junior class. The exercises on the part of the students are more varied. They read, study, talk and do any thing they may please, until some few are selected and made an example...