Word: oxford
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...hundred and fifty pounds a year is a low estimate of the average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits, whether they be literary or otherwise, cannot be reckoned at less than...
...Hazing,' 'rushing,' secret societies, society initiations and badges, and the other barbarities and puerilities, which still linger in most American colleges, are unknown at Oxford and Cambridge; and the relations between students and teachers, undergraduates, graduates, and dons, are unreserved and strongly friendly...
...writer makes no reference to the "wine-clubs" which, until within a few years, were very popular at both the universities. He thinks there is much more drunkenness and licentiousness at Cambridge and Oxford than among an equal number of American students...
...expenditure on the part of students by prohibiting gaming, horse-racing, contracting debts with very long credit and high rate of interest, or driving four-in-hands; but President Eliot thinks it will be fortunate if such regulations are not needed before our institutions are half as old as Oxford...
...given by the Rev. A. C. A. Hall on the History of the Early Christian Church. The subject is one of great interest, and deals with facts that every one, whatever his belief may be, should be acquainted with. Father Hall is a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford, and a member of the society of St. John the Evangelist. He has made a special study of Church History, and cannot fail to treat his subject in an interesting and masterly...