Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Paris and Bologna were the earliest seats of advanced study - the one in theology, the other in law. They were the foundations of the modern universities, Oxford and the universities in Spain, Germany and northern France being modeled after the University of Paris, and those in Italy and southern France after the University of Bologna. Originally they were not universities, in the modern sense of the term. The nucleus of the modern university was merely a gathering of pupils around a teacher of eminence and repute, whom they supported by fees. The teacher, who was called "doctor" or "magister artum...
...economy. It could but react to the benefit of the students, while the lecture system gave no chance for any intimacy which might arise between student and professor. This system arose at Paris, but was imported to England and almost did away with the original lecture system at Oxford. About this time, the revival of classical learning drove out the study of Commercial Law, though lectures were still given on these subjects. The invention of printing also gave an impetus to learning, through the study of cheap books instead of valuable manuscripts. Little by little, the university lecturers made...
...education afforded by Oxford and Cambridge to be compared with that of any of the great German universities...
...mediaeval times, when students flocked to the universities by thousands, the extortions by lodging-house keepers became intolerable, and energetic measures were devised to repress them, as at Oxford, at Paris and at Bologna. Students do not yet flock to Harvard in such multitudes; but the growth of the university in recent years has been so rapid and the increase in the number of students has been so great, that the available means of personal accommodation have been quite unequal to the demand. This fact undoubtedly reflects high honor upon the faculty, instructors and government of the institution...
...success of such buildings as Little's Block, Hilton and Beck shows that dormitories are in demand. The writer then goes on to compare the rents of rooms at Harvard with that at English universities. "The rent of rooms in the college dormitories ranges from $300 downward. At Oxford, the most expensive university in Europe, room rent is not nearly so high; the highest priced rooms in Christ Church College, the costliest of all, being but pound18 18s., about $95; at Balliol the total average cost of furnished rooms is about pound20-$100; at Magdalene the highest priced rooms...