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VERY different from the scene to which we are accustomed at the Boat House is that presented on the river at Oxford. Besides the Oxford University Boat Club, which sends the crew to meet Cambridge in the famous race every spring, nearly all of the twenty-four colleges have boat-clubs of their own. The boat-clubs of most of the colleges own barges, - great hulks painted with the colors of the colleges to which they belong. The barges each contain a large club-room and a number of dressing-rooms, and, above, there is a deck from which...
...funds to establish new professorships, or procure new assistants, in this important branch of study. But while the present overcrowding of both instructors and students continues, it will be difficult to induce men of high reputation to come here, men worthy of sitting in company with the many truly famous professors whose names appear upon our catalogue...
...which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother was famous. To his intense astonishment, they did n't slink out of the room abashed and ashamed. They only said that he looked so pious he ought to lead them in prayer; and they made...
...This man was St. Behoene, a celebrated physicist (who flourished in the time of Abelard and Heloise), canonized on account of his broad charity for all who held opinions different from his own. His bones now rest quietly in the little Monastery of Beck, a place still famous for the piety and erudition of the occupants...
...This is a famous department of this paper, and the statement is intended as a compliment...