Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ruskin's last Oxford lecture was mainly devoted to a eulogy of Du Maurier's work in Punch...
Professor Farrow, at West Point, Professor Andrews of the Gymnasium of the Young Men's Christian Association at Brooklyn, Dr. Sargent, of Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard University, and Archabald Maclaren, of the Gymnasium at Oxford University in England, all find no difficulty in adding in one year from an inch to an inch and a half to the fore and upper arms, and three inches to the girth of chest, of pupils under their charge...
...long time the patronage of the drama was viewed almost as a sin at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. Even amateur performances by the students were looked upon with disfavor. But a new era now appears to have dawned Under the liberal rule of Professor Jowett, the Oxford students are now attacking such plays as "The Merchant of Venice," and the "Vic" Theatre, well known to old Oxonians as the scene of many a friot and unlimited uproar, is again reopened in term-time and the "Shakesperian and English Comedy Company" is now giving English plays...
Prof. Clark, of Williams College, has gone on a trip to Europe, with a view of examining the methods of laboratory work in Oxford and Cambridge. He also intends to visit the German universities and then go to Naples, where the rest of his time will be spent. There his work will be mostly of a zoological character...
...regard to the other passage associating "aristocratic" with this school and college system, let me say-as I can without contradiction-the "public" or "grammar" schools of England, not twelve merely, but, large and small, more than 200, and the scholarships at the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, are the main popular or democratic safeguards of the social system of the country. They have been the means of enabling, for three hundred years, many sons of humble tradesmen, clerks and farmers to rise to the highest offices in church and state. not a few of England's Archbishops and Lord...