Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Palmer, the author of the "Folk-Etymology," has undertaken the editorship of the "Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases Adopted into English," for the preparation of which the late Mr. Stanford left a bequest of $25,000 to the University of Oxford...
...English cabinet, save Mr. Chamberlain, are university men - seven Oxford, six Cambridge...
...Wells, president of the Oxford University Athletic Club, England, on Dec. 18, took his Bachelor's degree. Last season he beat W. G. George off the mark at the Exeter sports in a half-mile race, and later on in the University sports he defeated Eyre by eight yards...
...college at Cambridge University in England, Selwyn College, bids fair to be as brilliant a success at Cambridge as Keble has been at Oxford. Only sixty students can be accommodated so far, as the L38,000 originally subscribed did not suffice to build more than the first block. Selwyn is the first college added to the university during the present century...
...Board of Overseers have again appointed Messrs. Walker and Hall lecturers for the current year, and the Rev. C. P. Parker, a graduate of Oxford, instructor in Freshman Greek and Latin...