Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DEAR SIR, - I am now having printed, and shall soon mail to the leading colleges, a formal circular announcing the fact that next year the National Association will inaugurate races open to collegians only, and inviting correspondence as to the style of races preferred, the time and place of the Regatta...
...time to begin the annual howl for plank walks in the Yard...
...notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which no man is admitted whose average is n't over 85 per cent, and whose members think they know more than any instructor in college, and spend their spare hours in reading...
...those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical of the time...
...conclusion, Oxford is at the same time a university of the past and of the present. Many old manners and customs still remain, but in most respects she is abreast of the times and is making continual progress. The restraint put upon the student, however, seems to be greater than in most other large universities, but in time this will doubtless be done away with...