Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cable despatch from England says that one of the men of the Cambridge crew is hopelessly ill, and as it is too late to properly train a substitute, Oxford is certain to win the university boat race...
...Cambridge crew is the favorite in the races to be rowed with Oxford next week...
...very improbable that the Oxford-Cambridge race will be rowed over the usual course this year. Only two apertures are available in the Hammersmith bridge, and the boat which took the middle course would lose two or three lengths. It is proposed to row the race from Westminster to Putney, the course over which the race was rowed at the beginning of the contests...
...Oxford and Cambridge 'varsity crews have gone into active training with the beginning of Lent. General opinion is turning in favor of Cambridge for the race...
...Oxford Review of a recent date contains the following: "A great change affecting the army, is announced, which has unusual importance to members of the university who may contemplate a military career. Hitherto, Latin and Greek have been included among the voluntary subjects of the final examination by which it was possible to obtain extra marks and thereby compensate for deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state...