Word: christy
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library of Corpus Christi College was acquired under rather strange conditions. Archbishop Parker lent his library to the college on the condition that if ever 25 books should be missed from its shelves, all the collection should go to Caius College...
...remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College...
Christ Church College, founded by the renowned Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, has the largest number of students on its books, but is seldom called a college, its name among the fellows being "The House," derived from its Latin name Aedes Christi. This college is renowned for the statesmen it has sent forth upon their career. Among the older graduates are such names as Godolphin, Bolingbroke, Mansfield, Locke, Ben Johnson and Sir Philip Sydney, while the modern names of Peel, Canning and Gladstone keep up the reputation of the college. Christ Church Hall with its lofty roof of Irish...
Keble is the most modern of the colleges as it was founded in 1870, it chapel alone costing L30,000. Exeter, Worcester, Wadham, Corpus Christi, Trinity, University and Hereford constitute the remaining colleges, all homes of celebrated men, although smaller and of less consequence than the rest help to make the University of Oxford one of the largest in the world...
...Society of old papers of interest, extending through thirteen volumes. But one hundred and fifty copies of this work were printed. Several more publications of the Early English Text Society (Nos. 75-78) have also been added to the library. Under the head of theology we note "Die kirche Christi undihre zeugen, oder Die kirchengeschickte in biographieen" by F. Bohringer on twenty-four volumes, published at Stuttgart 1873-79. A number of volumes on the scientific exploration of Algiers in 1840-42, published in Paris, are placed under the head of Science. Under Fine Arts, we note a number...