Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is nothing startlingly new in the statement of Mr. Andrew V. Corry, in his series of articles on Oxford current in the CRIMSON, that calls Oxford a "University of Colleges" and Harvard a "University of Faculties." The contrast of these two terms throws light on a number of related points particularly timely just now, when the names of Harvard and Oxford are being connected in many minds as two which are coming more and more to imply the same things...
...center and soul of Oxford life is in the Colleges. The University as such receives and matriculates the undergraduate, examines him, grants him degrees, and its police powers guard him while he is outside college walls in Oxford; but every day he lives in his College and learns to recognize in it the first meaning which Oxford...
Last week came news that Edward S. Harkness had more than made amends to Harvard. With an initial gift of $3,000,000, first given anonymously (TIME, Nov. 19), and with promise of $10,000,000 more he has made possible at Cambridge, Mass., the Oxford & Cambridge (England) idea...
...Oxford one is constantly reminded of the nearness of the country. From my college window I have a view unspoilt by houses: ahead of me stretches the broad green sweep of the Christ Church Meadows, broken by the tall noble trees bordering the Broad Walk, and far beyond them is the Isis. In the fields I often see horses grazing; it is a country view...
...Oxford, unfortunately, has lately become the prey of commercial enterprise; the Morris-Cowley motor-car works are nearby, while suburbanizing influences have made North Oxford as ugly as Hinksey is squalid. But it is easy to escape this ugliness and squalor, if one should see it at all. Walking is a pleasant pastime, still profitable and possible in and about Oxford. Will any man forego the walk along the Isis to Ifley, and a peep at the fine Norman village church there? Who has been so listless as to neglect the upper Isis, sampling delicacies and a good...