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The proportion of deaths among those who have rowed in the Oxford-Cambridge races since 1829 is shown by a carefully compiled "Record of the University Boat Races 1829-1880," recently published in London, to be below the average death rate. Out of 485 who had taken part in these...
But the coins cannot compare in interest with the manuscripts and manuscript letters in the room. There are four plain cases which contain these literary rarities. Perhaps the most valuable and most incomprehensible to the majority of visitors are the Biblical manuscripts. There are about ten in one case, not...
An English writer says, concerning the influence of the women's colleges at Oxford and Cambridge: "The sweet 'girl-graduate,' flourishing as that race appears to be, has not yet so fully taken possession of our universities as to render feminine society and girlish voices every-day adjuncts of college...
THERE are numerous curiosities to be seen in the public exhibition-room of the Library. It is reached by the iron staircase behind the catalogue. There are illuminated Books of Hours, old calendars, Hebrew MSS., chained monastic MSS., and other objects of interest, which are well worth a visit.