Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should no more judge the great body of English students by the few cases of disorder which occur, than we ourselves ought to be condemned because of the misconduct of a few. An editorial in the current number of the "London Graphic," in commenting on undergraduate life at Oxford, says : The Vice-Chancellor of Oxford has had to inflict a fine of ten pounds on some undergraduates who had been guilty of an offence which used once to be described as "dusting a bobby," but which in these days is no longer spoken of in jocular terms. A spiteful assault...
...wonder how anybody could have been found to accept the office of watchman in those times, not so very remote, when beating the watch was part of a gay young gentleman's evening's amusement. Canning, writing a dutiful, though stilted, letter to his uncle from Oxford, memtioned quite casually that, returning from a political debate at the coffee-house, he and six friends had fallen in with two watchmen who, as the result of this encounter, turpe solum tetigere mento. Even the decorous Charles Greville tells us how, after dinning at White's, he had a spar with some...
Some comment has been made on the fact that Cambridge has not yet challenged Oxford for their annual race. However there is very little doubt but that the race will take place...
Cambridge and Oxford have an annual income of $1, 000, 000 each...
Prof. Sylvester, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was formally elected Savilian Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, England, on Wednesday last. It has been understood for some time that he would accept...