Word: oxonians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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GENTLEMEN: - In speaking of the yard, Dr. Hill says at the top of page 2 of his "Harvard College by an Oxonian:" "One thing only was wanting - there was not a bench to be found . . . but there was no place for a weary man to sit and rest himself...
...course of lectures on "Historic Harvard," such as was suggested in the communication to yesterday's CRIMSON, could not fail to be very popular. The interest which the undergraduate feels in this subject is shown by the favorable reception given to "Harvard by an Oxonian." If an account of the University by a stranger has proved so acceptable, how much greater would be the interest in a course of lectures by some of the men who have themselves seen Harvard as she was in the old times, and have lived in constant and intimate association with her history and traditions...
...light of Mr. Hemenway's generous gift to the University, the following quotation from "Harvard College by an Oxonian," reads with a new interest...
...degree. The points here brought out which will probably strike the Harvard undergraduate most forcibly are, first, the absence of afternoon recitations, and, second, the presence of only three examinations during the college course. The second part of the article is devoted to the social side of the Oxonian's life, and the third, to Oxford athletics. The social situation is summed up in the following sentence: "Thus, if there are no societies in the Harvard sense, there is far more society; if there are no all-important clubs, the whole place is like a club;" while the state...