Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...long usage would be inadvisable. All the distinction which is necessary between members of the graduation class and those of the lower classes, is made by the dress suit. Any further distinction is superfluous. We cannot yet see why Harvard should ape the manners and customs of Cambridge or Oxford, especially as we consider our American ways fully equal to any which may be imported...
...Yale in recognition of his extraordinary services in behalf of the University crew. Captain Cook rowed on the University Crew in 1872, which was defeated. He then came to the conclusion that he could obtain some good points from the English University crews and accordingly paid a visit to Oxford and Cambridge in '73, with a view to learning their stroke. The result of his visit was the famous "Cook stroke," a combination of his own ideas and those of the Englishmen. He has worked faithfully with the crews since his graduation, and has done more to raise the standard...
...lower classes in that department." In conclusion, Mr. Shaler refers to the English system, by which "many of the secondary schools of that country have in their possession presentations and scholarships which enable youths who win them to defray in part, or wholly, their education at either Oxford or Cambridge. ... The effect of these presentations both on the school which gives and that which receives, is good. They help the lower schools to fill their classes with youths contending for the prize, and they give to the universities well selected students...
...Oxford University has appliances for printing in one hundred and fifty different languages...
Club Tables at 16 Oxford St., also one Furnished room to let. Mrs. M. J. Pike...