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...alcove is provided with a bed, a hard mattress, an exceedingly hard pillow, and a sort of a rough shelf, which serves as a wash stand. The walls are decorated to a certain extent with the statistics of former races, the autographs of former oarsmen, and sarcastic observations from unknown visitors, very partial to our adversaries and uncomplimentary to ourselves...
...arrival we were summoned to dinner by our careful captain, that we might eat and sufficiently digest our food before rowing. On assembling around the table we were greeted by the familiar face of Robert Churchill, the cook, and two dark satellites of his whose features were unknown to us. About two hours after dinner, everything being ready, we took a short row in the cool of the evening...
...most Americans the every day life of the student of an English university is an almost unknown subject, Their information about it is mainly derived from the brilliant pictures of university life which the English novel occasionally affords us. It would be difficult to imagine a life more free and pleasant than that which the Oxford student enjoys. Although the social entertainment and amusements of the town of Oxford are few, he need never be at a loss for occupation, for the university is most completely a world by itself, which possesses innumerable sources of amusement on account of this...
...incredible as it may seem, there are men in good standing in Harvard college who have never entered the library. A large college like Harvard must necessarily contain men of every shade, of taste and purpose. Some of us are here to get through, others for strange and unknown reasons, a few to work. It is not necessary to be a "grind," or even a hard student to become cultivated. It is of no consequence whatever what makes a man if he is only well made. But to be "well made" there are some things which we must...
...very low as compared with that in America. Rent, food and clothes are all cheap, and there is not the fashion, as with us to be lavish, so that the competition in expenditure of which so many well-meaning but weak minded American undergraduates are the victims, is practically unknown. A thousand dollars a year is the figure now generally given in estimation of the ordinary expense at a "crack" American college; and probably a considerable part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing...