Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Sylvester, late of Johns Hopkins, expects to enter upon his duties as Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford early in this year...
...merchant of Venice" was recently performed at Oxford by the undergraduates and dons, assisted by ladies. It met with such success that a proposition is on foot to repeat it at some theatre in London. This introduction of theatricals at Oxford has had an important effect on the social life of the undergraduates. Hitherto they have devoted themselves almost entirely to athletics as means of recreation. during the last few years representations of Greek tragedies have become popular, and now with the aid of outside ladies they have success fully rendered a Shakespearean comedy...
...Undergraduate Life at Oxford" is the title of an article in the January Lippincott...
Just at this season Oxford is in its glory-in its natural academic and social glory. The great elm trees that abound in all the gardens and that line the banks of the Isis are in their first and freshest foliage. The ivy and the roses are climbing walls of edifices and gardens and are now in full leaf and flower. The lawns and green-swards are as trim as art and labor can keep them, and as soft to the foot-step as velvet, and as the habit of a thousand years could make them. Today the examinations...
...Oxford is greatly excited by an attempt to appoint a dissentor as examiner of students in church theology, including the "39 articles." Prof. Jowett, lately attempted, according to custom, to address a meeting in Latin, but mixed his genders, broke down and fell back on English...