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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...
Keble is the most modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...
...Expenses at Harvard" is the heading of an article in the Boston Globe, which laments the difficulty of living at Harvard for less than $500 per annum...
...that gas is slightly dangerous when used by students in such an inflammable tinderbox as the main hall of Gore. But the electric light would give no cause of alarm on this head and would be much better than gas in every way. It would give a better light, less heat, no smell and no care. The Edison system of incandescent lights with the pretty and inexpensive electro-liers such as are in use in the Bijou Theatre would be just what is needed. The electricity needed could be furnished by the dynamo-electric machine in Boylston Hall which...
...result of the "semis." That this is unknown to many of the faculty is evident from the fact that the returns of the examinations in some courses are not made for a month or even six weeks. It certainly would seem that the books in those courses which number less than fifty men might all be corrected within two weeks after the examinations...