Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College the following sentiments appear: "Park College wants the raw materials with which to rebuild its recently burnt building-the boys will do the work. Yale cultivates rowing and produces oarsmen. Park cultivates skilled and useful industry, and produces self-reliant preachers, businessmen and farmers. The one understands the "Oxford stroke," the other the business stroke. The one will stop on a strand. The other will only stop long enough on the mountain top of success to get a good view of the world, when he will take wing-Excelsior...
...University of Oxford has lately published an "Honors' Registry," containing a complete record of the distinctions won by students at Oxford up to the present date...
...stroke used in their practice up to the present time by the Oxford University crew averages from twenty-eight to twenty-nine to the minute...
...elevate the standard of colleges and give some definite value to the degrees conferred is to be hailed with pleasure by all college men. This is especially true in a country like the United States where there are no national universities recognized as such, as are the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. This move is in a line with the move of the Philological Society towards the better regulation of all college degrees and should be followed by the other States...
...Alfred E. Haserick, of Commonwealth avenue, who has been during the last two years a pupil of Dr. Humphreys, sailed on the Arizona last Tuesday on his way to enter Christ Church, Oxford. Dr. Humphreys, therefore, has a vacancy for a pupil, either resident or daily, to prepare for Harvard as freshman or sophomore. He would prefer one having the ambition to enter on advanced standing...