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...Warren Merton Robinson, b. 24 June, 1857, at East Taunton; d. at Lynn, 27 July...
...George Saintsbury, formerly of Merton College, Oxford, who has just been nominated by the Crown to the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature in the University of Edinburgh, made vacant by the resignation of Prof. David Masson, has completed his volume on Nineteenth Century Literature, which contains some of his most brilliant work. The difficulties, not alone of generalization and classification, but also of selection and proportionment, are infinitely greater in the case of writers of our own century than in that of earlier writers; yet Mr. Saintsbury has emerged very successfully from his difficult task, and has produced...
...views of Exeter College were shown some of the college chapel, the architectural gem of the university, built in imitation of the Sainte Chapelle at Paris. An exquisite little view looking from Oriel Street out to the spire of St. Mary's Chapel led to various views of Merton and the famous Christ Church College. The lecture ended with a view of a boat race on the Cherwell...
...Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions...
...years enjoyed this privilege to the full, and, although the principle was carried at Oxford yesterday by a large majority, (100 to 46), its application was limited to a capricious selection of subjects, and was hampered by sundry restrictions. We are glad, however, to learn from the Warden of Merton's speech that the promoters will not be content until they have won "complete academical equality" for women. [Pall Mall...