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...Oxford, can claim to rival her in glory. It was to be expected that when the five hundredth anniversary of her birthday came around, not only the alumni of the university and the inhabitants of Heidelberg, but scholars of every name and tongue, from all over Christendom, would flock together to take part in the glorious celebration. For weeks beforehand the whole city was in a bustle of anxious preparation. There was erected on the banks of the Neckar an enormous Jubilee Building, in which 7,000 people could be seated. Every house was decorated with bunting and evergreen...
...Ideas" are solicited from everyone of note. If the writer's memory serves him, there was a communication from the Mikado of Japan, in which he berated soundly the methods of teaching his melodious language, now in use at Harvard. He regarded, however, the large number of students who flock nightly to see Gilbert and Sullivan's truthful version of life in Japan, as a sure sign that his native language was finally becoming popular in America. About one o'clock, glasses were charged for the last time (?) and at the final toast of fair Harvard, all arose...
...Independence, it began its career with a few professors and barely 100 students. For a few years it occupied a modest-looking house of some fifteen rooms, in the old quarter of the town. But soon the University received a vigorous impulse to greater activity; students began to flock to Athens to study under the excellent German professors whom the King had imported, and wealthy Greeks at home and abroad began making endowments upon the institution. By 1848 most of the German professors had given place to Greeks, who had generally studied abroad. Since then the University, under the care...
...Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit on the public, by the retention of old customs. The large number that flock to the Hall every Christmas Day, to see the Boars head, attest the popularity of that timehonored dish, and the ceremony therewith. In fact, it frequently happens that people are turned away from the College gates from lack of more space within the precincts. Precisely at five o'clock...
...fertile, low-lying plain, surrounded and traversed by the Cam, sets off well the dark mass of buildings with the famous stone bridge, from which the name Cambridge is derived. As early as the twelfth century, pale faced students, who burned their lamps far into the night, began to flock to the place and were compelled at first to board out among the few miserable dwellings of the town. One by one the colleges were founded until, in Milton's time, the supremacy of Oxford University was threatened. As in Oxford the colleges all face upon one broad street, while...