Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lyman Abbott in a recent article on Rugby, gives a description of life at this popular English school so well known to every reader of "Tom Brown's School Days." "The public school is divided into different 'houses.' The pupil enters a house just as at Oxford or Cambridge he enters a 'college.' He becomes a member of that house. At Rugby there are eight of these different houses, and about the same number at Eton. Each of these houses is under the charge of its own house master. He carries it on as a boarding-house, takes the fees...
...four-handed racket match for the championship of the English universities was played recently at Belgravia near London, between Oxford and Cambridge men, and Cambridge won the match by four games to one, making a total of 60 aces against 22. The score in 27 matches now stands 14 for Cambridge and 13 for Oxford. From 1869 to 1875 Oxford won seven times in succession, and from 1876 to 1883 Cambridge has had a series of uninterrupted victories. The single-handed game was also won by Cambridge by a score of three games to one. Twenty-six single handed matches...
...weak colleges throughout the country has not been a mistake, as is sometimes stated, but has been the means of diffusing the greatest possible amount of learning and intelligence among the many American citizens. "What we want," he says, "is not two or three centres of learning, like Oxford and Cambridge in England, where all young Americans can collect who want more than a common school education, but small colleges scattered broadcast over our three million square miles of territory where a good practical education may be obtained by students who desire to devote the four years to the mere...
...Secret societies are an anomalous feature in American college life. A student from Oxford or Paris who visits one of our colleges is surprised to find many of the students decorated with breast-pins, inscribed with Greek characters. These insignia are sometimes wrought in strange forms, such, perhaps, as Anchorites of old kept in view to remind them of death and the grave. On being informed that these ornaments, with their strange devices, are badges of secret fraternities of a social or literary character, the foreigner is curious to inquire into the nature of the secrets which are so carefully...
...clock in winter. Any application for leave of absence must be supported by medical certificates. There is a strict strict entrance examination in necessary and optional subjects, except for those who have passed such difficult examinations as the matriculation examination of the University of London and the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations for sen or students. The standard of these examinations is consistently kept up all through the scholastic term. But there is a lighter side to all these severe experiences. The fair undergraduates, for such they really are, are after all very human. There is always music going...