Word: oxonian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Jones, '88, chairman of the Exeter Lit, has offered a gold medal to that member of the nine who shall have the best record in base-sliding at the end of the season. The Oxonian has offered a similar medal to the man who gets the highest batting average...
...last Livy is rendered into clear, intelligible, good fighting English, by such well-known scholars as Alfred John Church, the Oxonian, and William Jackson Broderibb, a late fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, says the N. Y. Times. The translation covers the history of the second Punic war, and is the only one of any merit that has been made since Baker's, which was published...
...Oxonian lately visiting Harvard expressed amazement at what seemed to him the utter disregard of the comfort of the student in the matter of food and in other respects. In case of sickness the student's position is simply wretched. Except some Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system...