Word: give
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...VERDANT GREEN," "Tom Brown," and "Five Years at an English University," afford any amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they...
...nine, as a kind of disreputable lunatic. What we think about and care about now is, who is going to get into the clubs, or who will be in the next ten, or how we can obtain this room in Beck, or get the Bursar to give us that room in Holworthy. We have n't time to think about boating or ball. O yes, we'll subscribe; only don't bother us, and we'll pay some time during the winter...
...Yard has often been discussed. Such a box placed in front of University would be a great convenience, especially on cold winter mornings when a tramp to the post-office is peculiarly disagreeable. Will not the College authorities, who so carefully look after the convenience of the students, give us another proof of their desire to accommodate...
...World will hereafter publish its college news in the Monday edition, and will give even more room to this department than it has hitherto devoted. Although the World's reports were better than those of any other paper, they left, at the close of the year, something still to be desired...
...Give but the word; I will obey thy call...