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...calculated that Vanderbilt's income would pretty nearly cover the total receipts of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton combined...
Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London Universities have opened their doors to women...
...based almost solely on those six or seven well known and aristocratic schools, which still clung to the old classical system long after most important and liberal reforms had been introduced into the great body of the "Grammar" or endowed schools of the country, such as Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield, Durham, Cheltinham, anni multis Allis, hundreds in fact, in which for more than 30 years a liberal scientific, English and modern education has not only been combined with the classical, but made to a considerable extent imperative upon all pupils from the lowest "form" to the highest...
Contrary to the general impression, there are many students' journals in England published at the different schools and colleges, though none, we believe at Oxford or Cambridge. The names of some of these papers are: The Bathonian, Durham University Journal, Epsomian, Excelsior, Mill Hill, Merchant Company's Schools' Magazine, Pelican, Queen's College Magazine, Reptonian, Rossalian, School Magazine, the Ladies' College Magazine, Cheltenham, and Our Magazine, published at the North London Collegiate School for Girls...
...only two. Scotland has four, two having been united. Oxford and Cambridge have existed for many centuries as fully appointed universities. The University of London is not properly a university, but merely an examining body for granting degrees, and it does that kind of work thoroughly. The University of Durham is new and not yet prominent. The new university at Manchester is the outgrowth of Owens College and was originally endowed, like the Johns Hopkins, by a private founder, afterwards by subscriptions. It has become known chiefly by its work in natural science but desires to encourage humanistic studies equally...