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SEVENTY-NINE is to be congratulated. That a class so large, so earnest in society matters, and of such different interests, could harmoniously unite to secure the most open and unbiased election that recent years have shown, seemed almost impossible, and yet it is true. Those croakers who declared that...
THANKS are also due to the Committee which arranged the preliminaries and took charge of the meeting. The mode of balloting they selected seems to have given universal satisfaction, both on account of its accuracy and perfect fairness. We question, however, whether the room selected for the meeting, though the...
THE Exonian comes to us regularly once a week, and is always readable. This may be owing to its size, which does not allow of long articles on deep subjects, - but whatever the cause, the result is most agreeable!
In the first place, we must remember that Oxford is constantly changing. Most of us derive our ideas on this subject from reading "Tom Brown"; but the Oxford of to-day is by no means what it was when Thomas Hughes saw it. The purse-proud regime has been reduced...
There are at present thirty or more Americans at Oxford, most of whom are probably sent to imbibe conservative views, or because they or their parents have been fired by reading "Tom Brown." But Oxford is commonly conceived of as far more stereotyped than it really is. Among the works...