Word: tom
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FIRST SOPHOMORE. I say, Tom, how do you like this foggy weather...
...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, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose...
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 studied are those of Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, Mill, Darwin, Huxley, and Tyndall. In Merton Library old books still remain chained to the wall, but as a visitor was looking at them he noticed that the last two books issued to a student were works of the most sweeping radical...
Ever since "Tom Brown at Oxford" glided into glory under cover of the earlier Tom Brown's reputation, we have been waiting for the American Tom Brown. Many aspirants to that title have arisen, but none of them has the popular verdict recognized. Mr. Severance has struggled hard to gain it, and we must do him the justice to say that he has followed his model with the most conscientious exactness. Both the heroes row in exciting races; each of them has two loves, one in high and one in low life; both the heroines sprain their ankles and have...
...Tom is a returning prodigal. He wonders if the old prodigal in the parable would have been pardoned quite as readily if he had been attended by a retinue of unpaid bills. Dick, likewise, is as sad as twilight. He took a hand with Dan Cupid last summer, and won. Ah! you conceited fellow, you are thinking that Rose is not quite worthy of you, and that you might have done better, after all. But you must make her a present, ex officio. We sympathize - with Rose...