Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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London Truth furnishes a counterpart to an Oxford story of a solicitor, who, in trying for a degree in law, was "plucked" upon a text-book of which he was himself the author, as follows: "Two of the disappointed candidates at a recent examination for admission to the bar are men who have already attained eminence at the Indian bar, where the practice is substantially the same as in England, and where the standard of the bar is notoriously but little inferior. One of these gentlemen has for some years had a professional income of pound15,000 per annum...
...Burdon Sanderson, the eminent physiologist and author, has been appointed Waynflete Professor of Physiology in the University of Oxford, England. Professor Sanderson's experiments and vivisections have led to many important discoveries and have excited the interest of scientific men in all parts of Europe and America...
...Tales of Modern Oxford" is a recent English publication by the author of "Lays of Modern Oxford...
...Oxford man, says Robert Laird Collier, is known in society by his drawl. The present writer has several young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these...
...management of the Oxford Magazine will be in the hands of an editorial committee composed of graduates and undergraduates of the university. Among other general matters, it will aim at giving the latest university news, full account of sports - cricket, rowing, foot-ball and the like - reports of important university sermons, studies on politics, literature and art; original verse, critiques of recent books, and whatever is worth mentioning in university life. Mr. James Thornton, Oxford, will be the publisher...