Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club of seven or eight can be accommodated at 16 Oxford St., also seats at general table. Mrs. M. J. Pike...
...visit to that beautiful suburb of London, Harrow, and also of its famous preparatory school. Harrow and Eton are the two great English preparatory schools, and are characterized, only to a lesser extent, by the same rivalry and spirit of contention that the great universities of Cambridge and of Oxford display towards each other. Harrow is among schools a venerable patriarch, being founded in 1571, but still is obliged to assume the humble position of younger brother with reference to Eton, which came into existence about one hundred and thirty years before its present rival...
...Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...
...issue, and which defended the application of the term "'varsity" to our college teams, we wish to offer the following brief account of the origin of the word in question. The word "'varsity" comes to us from the English universities. It was first used on the "bumping-course" at Oxford, where the "bargemen" dubbed the Oxford University eight, "the 'Varsity." This word was speedily adopted by the college men at large, and before long it made its appearance in America...
...more gentlemen can be accommodated with seats at the General Table of Miss Cotter's, 10 Oxford...