Word: one
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...one short hour, then, vanishing, reveal...
...One of the causes of the immense progress at Oxford in recent as compared with former years has been the operation of the University, Tests Abolition Act. In America many are still accustomed to think of Oxford as a university where everybody is obliged to sign the Thirty-nine Articles and conform with the established church, but such is not now the fact. This act abolished subscription to any and all formularies of faith as a condition of admission, or taking lay degree and lay academical or collegiate offices...
...Homer and Thucydides, in Virgil or some other of the Latin classics; must translate a short English passage into Latin prose, answer some questions on grammar, show a fair familiarity with arithmetic, and know something of Euclid or algebra. But if he possess special excellence in any one of these studies he is pretty certain to be admitted, even though he be weak in the rest. Oxford has a great tendency to foster special abilities...
...imitate Oxford. All of these - more than 700 in number and bringing in an aggregate of pound 60,000 annually - are bestowed for knowledge alone, and are sought as earnestly by the sons of the wealthy as by the poor. They average about pound 65 a year. This is one example of the determination at Oxford to draw no line between rich and poor. It has its swells and its snobs, but whatever they may import in that way is absolutely unrecognized by university and college law and administration...
There were five nominations for Orator, and four ballots were taken before any candidate obtained a majority. Mr. Mulligan was the favorite from the start, while Mr. Robinson stood next. Mr. Mulligan was elected by a majority of one vote...