Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settlement of annuities upon college graduates to encourage and aid postgraduate study in special branches, is a system first introduced by Oxford and Cambridge. The various colleges of which Oxford is composed, possess about three hundred fellowships, which are held for various lengths of time, some of them for life; but marriage, ecclesiastical advancement, or accession to a certain amount of property, compel the holder to surrender his fellowship. The fellow is elected after a severe competitive examination, and is hampered by very few conditions in the enjoyment of his income, and is at liberty to pursue almost any course...
...incomes of Oxford fellowships' very from L125, the average being about L100. The total annual income of the university is about L250,000; more than any other university in the world receives, and of this large sum more than one-third is expended in fellowships every year. Cambridge, being a smaller university, cannot make so large an appropriation, but is very generous...
...ponderous "Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates Journal," has now taken a smaller and more convenient form, appearing weekly under the title of the Oxford Review...
According to Bells' Life, the English Sporting Journal, John Teemer the oarsman, has been devoting his time to coaching the Oxford and Cambridge crews. Exactly how he has been able to do all this, as he has been at home in Pennsylvania all winter, is not explained...
Yachting seems to be popular at Oxford. The University Sailing Club held a regatta on the 3rd of December, and has announced dates for five more races to be sailed during the coming term...