Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor Bryce, of Oxford, Eng., in his recent work on the American Commonwealth," devotes a chapter to American universities and colleges. "Diligence, he says, is the tradition of the American college, especially of those which are remote from the influences of large cities. Even the greater universities, as Harvard, Yale and Columbia, have never been primarily places for spending three or four years pleasantly, and incidentally places of instruction, as was the case with Oxford and Cambridge during the last century. Every student at an American college goes to college with the fixed idea of learning something...
...efforts which have been made during the past year to complete arrangements for an international collegiate boat-race between Yale and Oxford recall a similar event which took place between Harvard and Oxford...
...Philadelphia cricket team which is to visit England next season will play Trinity, Oxford and Cambridge universities...
...associated press announcing that the boat race between Cambridge and Yale University has been fixed approximately for April 15. President Snipe of the Yale navy and Captain Woodruff deny this positively. They say that Yale has not even challenged Cambridge. In spite of this assertion another dispatch announces that Oxford also will be ready to row Yale, and that the Cambridge crew is hard at work training...
England has only one college paper edited by undergraduates, the Review, which is published at Oxford...