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...chapel, the choir and stained-glass being particularly good, and it is of this college that Dr. Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, was warden. Oriel, founded in 1324, ranks next in antiquity and has always been marked for religious tendencies, for here Keble and Wilberforce often discussed and argued in the common's room...
...this activity in regular training. A man who goes into training can not go on sprees, and must economize and systematize his time in order to both study and train. Having steadied their nerves by hard work of the muscles, many such men settle down to study and often make fair scholars. The system is conducive to the good order of the college, because it furnishes a healthy, interesting topic of conversation out of study hours. 5. The power of the athletic contests to awaken enthusiasm ought not to be held of small account. The tendency of academic life...
...students of many European colleges. But recently we heard of the arrest of many Russian students for implication in Nihilis plots. This, however, is no new occurrence. For years the universities and higher colleges of Russia have been infected with spirit of disloyalty towards the government, which has often been the cause of collisions with the local authorities and in some cases in exile to Siberia...
...this is not the only example which may be cited of the misfortunes which often attend a university education abroad. In Germany the barbarous practice of dueling which is so common there, is said to be encouraged or at least passed over in silence by the authorities, as it tends to divert the minds of the students from a too eager interest in politics, for it is a well known fact that the German universities have a strong tendency towards republicanism which if allowed to grow would soon assume formidable proportions. We can, therefore, congratulate ourselves that in some respects...
...best that can be done for them in four years in the way of a liberal education. What that best may be I have wished might be determined, not by the wishes of the students, but by the combined wisdom of the colleges. That idea I have labored for often under great discouragement, with the impression that it might be realized with a limited amount of money; whereas, if the university idea be admitted, there is no limit to the amount of money which may be used. But this idea, I fear, is becoming obsolete. I fear it is giving...