Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...profound ignorance on the part of Harvard students regarding the comparative values of the degree of A. B. from Harvard and from the great English Universities. There is a widespread idea that a graduate of our college would be obliged to do a great deal of hard work at Oxford or Cambridge before he could get a degree from either. Personal inquiry and comparison lead the writer to think differently, in fact quite the reverse...
...only a few of the colleges of Oxford or Cambridge are admission ex-examinations required, and without exaggeration it may be said that for these the previous preparation and the papers themselves are no more difficult than similar work for Harvard. At the remaining colleges all that is needed is a certificate from an instructor, somewhat similar to that required from our special students...
...Cambridge-Oxford race will probably be rowed on the Thames April 5. The Cambridge crew were the first to get to work...
Henceforth honor candidates in law, history, and science at Oxford, will be excused from the classical examinations, which are called the "moderations," at the end of the first or the beginning of the second year. The classics can now all be got rid of before entering the university, leaving the student free, as at Harvard now, to specialize as much as he pleases. The great public schools are altering their curricula so as not only to finish the classical part of the education, but supply elementary instruction in the principal sciences. Thus one after another the old ideas give...
...Oxford has an annual income...