Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...calculated that Vanderbilt's income would pretty nearly cover the total receipts of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton combined...
...income of the University of Cambridge is L231,265, and at Oxford it is at least L100,000 more...
...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...
...following from one of the daily papers explains itself. "For the first time a woman has been appointed as one of the lecturers to the Oxford Association for the Education of Women, and the name of Mrs. Marshall appears in the notice of lecturers issued for the next term. Her subject is Political Economy, under the sub-title of 'Labor, the Economic Conditions of its Well-being,' and the course commenced on 21st. inst." Whilst American colleges for the education of women, such as Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, have honored many women with appointments as professors and instructors, and Wellesley...
...copied from." The use of "Varsity" as an abbreviation for "University," when the term is applied to crews and teams representative of the college and professional schools, is not by any means a Harvardism, but, as all college men know, it is the word used by the students of Oxford and Cambridge to designate the crews which are picked from the various colleges and represent the entire university. The word, however, is not used exclusively at Harvard, but is common to all American colleges, being often the means employed to distinguish the college crew from the special crews...