Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...prose fantasy by the English poet Lang, describes the beauties and mysteries of an ideal Oriental Paradise concluding his description with a humorous satire on the misadventures of an Oxford professor of Arabic who in imagination has been transferred to the heaven of his studies and there meets with the author, as described in the following All the land is misty and fragrant with the perfume of the softest Latakia, and the gardens are musical with the bubbling of countless naghiles; and I must say that to the Christian soul which enters that paradise the whole place has, certainly...
...Oxford University is composed of no less than twenty-one separate colleges, all of which have their own officers and buildings and are situated in various parts of the town, each college consisting of a chapel, library, dining or great hall, quadrangle and dormitories. Balliol and Merton divide the honor of being the oldest colleges, as the former was founded in 1260 and the latter four years afterward. The examinations for entrance to Balliol are unusually "stiff" and her graduates generally rank high upon the honor-roll in the university examinations. Merton boasts of the finest chapel, the choir...
...modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...
...Oxford caps have nearly disappeared at Columbia...
...Oxford, Cambridge, Durham and London Universities have opened their doors to women...