Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have great lessons to learn from our elder and more experienced "foreign cousins." The stamp of the early doctrines gained in their university life is very manifest in the life work of many an illustrious statesman or literrateur, who passed his college years in some intellectual centre, such as Oxford or Heidelberg. Can we sincerely say that men shape their modes of thought in any lasting form while at Harvard? I doubt if traces of a student's four years' training are ever distinct enough to be discovered ten years after he leaves Cambridge. The man who possesses the most...
...Oxford Magazine is the title of a new journal which will be issued weekly during term time by members of the University of Oxford, both graduates and undergraduates. The periodical is intended to represent every shade of Oxford life and is to be established as a real and worthy organ of university opinion. It will contain, in addition to numerous general articles, reports of the chief clubs and societies of the university, important Oxford sermons and all university intelligence...
Between 1750 and 1850 the number at Cambridge University has almost doubled, while Oxford showed a comparatively small increase...
...rectorship, the incumbent of which had the power of internal regulation with both a civil and criminal jurisdiction; so started the university. The idea took; and, in three centuries, many of the leading towns in Italy, France, and the German Empire, had their universities, while in England arose Oxford and Cambridge. It was not until 1708 that the plan of having special instructors for each study went into effect. The curriculum was also largely modified. In addition to the classics, mathematics, physics and astronomy were taken up, and the lecture system came into vogue. Such were the universities...
Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, is now to be educated at Christ Church, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince Leopold, he will wear cap and gown only on occasions where they are required by law, and even then he will discard the gold tassel on the cap and silk gown of the cut that distinguishes, or rather used to distinguish, the gentleman-commoner from the nobleman...