Word: placing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Oxford-Cambridge race will take place March 24. Cambridge is the favorite, and, should she win, the number of races won by each university will be equal...
...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...
Oxford and Cambridge.- Oxford University is preparing to elect a new Professor of Poetry in the place of Sir Francis Doyle. Most of the students, it is said, would like to have Matthew Arnold...
...Greenwood Lake, about forty miles from New York, will probably be the place of the next contest...
While in the University, knowledge is imbibed with the air one breathes, a mode of study that requires no very great labor. Vacations, which are supposed to last the greater part of the year, are spent in improving the mind by foreign travel. Dignity is given to the place by a set of men called Fellows, who, living at the expense of the College, spend the day in walking about arm in arm, looking immensely important, and occupy the evening in telling stories and drinking immense quantities of Port wine. To gain a fellowship is the aim of every undergraduate...