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...home, and along with this, a respectable income, so that they can devote the whole of their leisure to scientific pursuits. Both Oxford and Cambridge have each more than 500 such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town, but may spend their stipends where they like, and in many cases may retain the fellowships for an indefinite period. With some exceptions, they only lose it in case they marry, or are elected to certain offices. They are the real successors of the old corporation...
...sailed by the light ship and shouted a warning, Rupert would have been promptly rescued. But the Ridgeway proceeded to Newport and left Rupert on the rocks. At high water the rocks are entirely submerged and in a high wind it is impossible for anyone to live upon them. Finding that he had a fight for life before him, Rupert saved his pocket knife and threw away all his clothing but his drawers and undershirt. His drawers he tore into strips about an inch and a half wide, and cutting new holes through the cork sections of the life preserver...
Outside the lecture-rooms the French students live without control, and associate with young men of other callings, without any special espritdecorps or common feeling...
Another consideration of value according to the writer is "the fact that in a great city those who teach partake of the earnestness, activity and force by which they are surrounded, in which they live." The writer also takes into consideration a few of the advantages a smaller town offers to students. "That which has always carried the greatest weight with me is the closer life into which students are brought by a college in an isolated situation. Young men act and re-act upon each other. They stimulate each other. They relentlessly pursue, and they most effectually...
...four years at most, and who were regarded as having finished their education, who in fact considered themselves educated to a degree of proficiency beyond which further study were superfluous. In China there is no fixed time for graduating, no limit to one's collegiate course, except he live beyond the age allotted the human race. If a student graduate from any college of a certain grade in ten years, he is considered a prodigy. We have frequently seen in China men of fifty years of age, the fathers of families, still attending college, diligently seeking to obtain their first...