Word: oxford
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Prof. Bowen, of Harvard, is the only representative of American upon the committee to erect a statue to the memory of Schopenhuer. The committee includes such eminent men as Ernest Renan, Max Muller of Oxford, Brahmane Ragot, Rampal Sing, and Rudolf Von Thering the celebrated Romanist of Gottingen...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -The following extract from an editorial in the New York Evening Post for Nov. 18th, may be of interest to such of your readers as have not already seen it. Speaking of an effort which Cardinal Newman made, while at Oxford, to abolish a rule which forced every undergraduate to take the sacrament regularly, the writer proceeds as follows...
...differently are some things done in England than in this country. In Oxford the following quaint old custom prevails: Every St. Scholastica's day the Mayor and sixty-two townsmen, specially chosen, offer at St. Mary's Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously murdered by the townsmen in the reign of Edward Third. Compare this with the state of things existing here. Here, every year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place...
Alone among American institutions of learning, did it enjoy the privilege of electing a representative to the state legislature. The period of study as at Cambridge and Oxford covered 3 years. The first college building was planned by Sir Christopher Owen the architect of St. Pauls. Five years after the first commencement exercises held at the beginning of the last century, the building, with the library and physical apparatus, was destroyed by fire, at a time when the colonial legislature was holding its sessions in its walls, curiously co-incident with the fate that befell Harvard Hall in 1764. Unfortunate...
...said that the number of freshmen at Oxford this term is unprecedentedly large. Students of narrow means are much more numerous than twenty years ago; in fact, in this respect, Oxford seems to be returning to the sixteenth century, when the sons of persons in what in England is called the lower middle class-yeomen, shopkeepers, etc.-made up much of the university...