Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BOOK on Athletic Sports, of three or four hundred pages, is soon to be published at McGill University, Canada, and will find its way here about the middle of March. It is to contain a chapter on Boating, with articles from Oxford and Cambridge. Yale, also, will probably supply some information, and a letter has been received by the President of the Boat Club here asking for a contribution to the chapter from Harvard...
WHETHER or not it is true that a bond 1,000 cup has been offered for a contest between Yale and Harvard vs. Oxford or Cambridge is quite uncertain, since persons most likely to have knowledge upon the subject profess ignorance, and the rumored author of the proposal is too far away to be interviewed...
...effort is being made to improve the condition of our literary societies, it is neither uninteresting nor profitless to ascertain how much importance is attached to these arts in foreign universities, and to examine the success of undergraduate clubs formed for the purpose of fostering them. The Oxford Union Society is an organization of this character, and the report of the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in the London Times, of October 23, affords good evidence of its success, and shows how prized among Englishmen is the power to express their thoughts with ease and clearness, whatever be the number...
...anniversary banquet was held in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, and so great was the number of guests that special trains were run from London for their accommodation. Lord Selborne, Lord High Chancellor, presided, and among the company, which comprised many of England's most distinguished men, were the Bishop of Oxford, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Manning, Mr. Cardwell, of the Cabinet, and Matthew Arnold. The after-dinner speeches were many in number, and one distinguished gentleman after another acknowledged how much good he had derived from the Union in his younger days. We quote from...
...same building with the school are rooms for the old pensioners ("cods," from "codger," the boys called them), whose number, about eighty, the old bell rings out every night just as Big Tom at Oxford gives the number of students in Christ College. There is something very pleasant and even touching in this union under one roof of lives so different as the careless school-boy's, with all the world before him, and the pensioner's in his black gown, with his work all done and only waiting for his dismissal. That most beautiful passage...