Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crom. of Oxford, England, recently ran 600 yards in 1 minute 12 4-5 seconds, beating the amateur English record...
...rooms early yesterday morning and succeeded in getting several articles of value. Two rooms in Thayer were visited, from one of which two coats were taken and from the other a watch and some small change. Two men in Matthews also lost their watches and money. Two houses on Oxford street were visited, but the thieves were frightened away before anything of value was taken. As none of the doors were forced, it is probable that the thieves went through the entries and only entered the rooms whose doors they found unlocked. The work was boldly and skillfully done...
...Fourth-The committee speak of the professional methods and want of good feeling. As to the latter, a dinner between the rival teams after the contests are over, such as the Oxford and Cambridge crews used to have, and perhaps still have, would tend to remove ill feeling...
...large, and the figures show there are both high and low scholars among them. The present method of marking is such that the averages cannot be obtained as exactly as a few years ago, but the conclusion is undoubtedly correct. Morgan's "University Oars" has settled the question for Oxford and Cambridge, that the men rowing in university races have a life longer and a health better than the average college graduate, and among them have been some of the highest double firsts and senior wranglers and some of the most noted men in intellectual pursuits in after life...
...dress of the present Harvard student contrasts peculiarly with the dress of the undergraduate of fifty years ago. The law was passed by the authorities in 1822, and it was at once put into practice. It reads substantially as follows: "The coat must be of black-mixed, called also Oxford-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps; waist reaching to the natural waist, with lapels of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord on the lower part of the sleeve...