Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classical departments at Oxford still continue to attract the largest number of able men, being hard run, however, by the mathematical school. Natural science comes next, then theology, then history, and last of all law, in which only one first class was obtained during the year...
...government of the university, then it might be advisable to allow its petition. Not, it is to be hoped, should co-education ever be admitted at Harvard to the extent that it holds at Cornell or at Ann Arbor, but perhaps under some modification of the system prevalent at Oxford and Cambridge in Girton and Newnham colleges. On the grounds of economy, if on no other, such a result might be desired...
...professorship of botany in Oxford University will soon become vacant, Mr. Lawson, its present occupant, having been appointed superintendent of the government cinchona plantations of Madras...
...announced for the Graves prize essays for the senior class this year are : "The American Judiciary and its Dangers," "The Imperfections of the Jury System," "Modern Inventions as Related to Human Happiness," "The Influence of Physical Conditions on Moral Character," "Athens in the Time of Pericles," "The University of Oxford," "Author of 'Rob and His Friends,' " "John Quincy Adams," "Partisan History," "Howells as a Critic of American Life," "The Unrest of the Age as Expressed in its Poetry...
...recent writer says: "New Oxford has succeeded to old Oxford, and the nineteenth century is now dominant in the chief centre of British culture and scholastic life. Harvard University, in its way, has followed the changes which have been observed at Oxford. More and more the religious tests of the professorships have been relaxed or removed, until they have almost entirely disappeared. The community would not tolerate an atheist as the Harvard president any more than an atheist would be tolerated as the vice-chancellor of Oxford, because atheism has not yet been tolerated in good society; but an important...