Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Yale authorities have communicated with Harvard as to the desirability of sending a challenge to the two English universities, and Professor Mendel has written Oxford and Cambridge asking whether they will consider a challenge for a meet in England next summer with Yale and Harvard. The Yale Board of Control voted last month to sanction a meet with the English universities even if Harvard should find it impossible to participate...
...there should be a joint meet this year it would break the tie that now exists between the Cambridge-Oxford and Harvard-Yale teams. The first engagement took place in 1899 on British soil, where the English triumphed five points to four, each place counting a point. On a return meet in 1901 in New York the Americans were more fortunate, winning by a 6 to 3 score, and this performance was again repeated in England three years later. In 1911 the Englishmen came to the fore again with a 5 to 4 victory, thus tying the series...
...Ware collection of Blaschka Glass Models and Plants will undoubtedly be the first object of interest to the visitor. It is on the third floor of the centre of the University Museum; the University Museum is the large building with the green roof directly north of the Yard on Oxford street...
Professor F. C. Conybeare of Oxford University will speak before the Graduate Schools' Society in the parlor of Phillips Brooks House on Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Professor Conybeare will speak on "The Origin of the Present Situation in Armenia...
...anxious to correct one misstatement about which there can be no difference of opinion. Both heretofore and now the number of Rhodes men at Oxford at one time has been normally two from each state; the scholarships are for three years, and one man is appointed from each state two years out of every three. And there has been no new ruling to prevent the appointment of unworthy candidates; such a ruling always existed. The Rhodes Trust, it seems to me, has not shown any such lack of confidence in former methods or former scholars as you suggest. Would...