item: #1 of 17 id: 13245 author: Wells, J. (Joseph) title: The Charm of Oxford date: None words: 27089 flesch: 60 summary: [Plate X. New College : The Entrance Gateway] Among the Founders of Oxford colleges, three stand out pre-eminent --all three bishops of Winchester and great public servants. It is not surprising that, when the Parliamentarians entered Oxford, the windows of the Cathedral were much abused; that so much old glass was spared was probably due to the local patriotism of old Oxford men. keywords: balliol; buildings; cambridge; century; chapel; christ; church; college; days; england; english; foundation; founder; great; hall; history; john; learning; library; life; magdalen; man; mary; men; merton; new; oxford; oxford college; oxford men; picture; plate; queen; time; tower; university; wadham; work; world; years cache: 13245.txt plain text: 13245.txt item: #2 of 17 id: 16898 author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur title: Green Bays. Verses and Parodies date: None words: 7769 flesch: 89 summary: 'BEHOLD! 'BEHOLD! keywords: come; commem; day; dear; dreamynge; fro; jane; kitty; lady; little; love; man; oxford; swells; thy; time; tis; town; twas; white cache: 16898.txt plain text: 16898.txt item: #3 of 17 id: 20001 author: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy) title: The English Spy: An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life date: None words: 218919 flesch: 60 summary: him as effectually as on the other evening, when Echo and myself were snugly enjoying a _tête-a-tête_ with Maria B----and little Agnes S----{31}; we accidentally caught a glimpse of _old Morality_ cautiously toddling after the pious Mrs. A--ms, _vide-licet_ of arts,{32} a lady who has been regularly matriculated at this university, and taken up her degrees some years since. A Frenchman who came down to bathe with his wife and sister insisted upon using the same machine with the ladies; the bathing-women remonstrated, but _monsieur_ retorted very fairly thus--_Mon dieu I vat is dat vat you tell me about décence. keywords: account; age; alderman; amusement; appearance; author; ball; bath; bernard; black; blackmantle; blue; board; bob; book; boy; boys; brother; bull; business; captain; care; castle; character; cheltenham; church; city; club; coach; college; colonel; common; company; countenance; country; course; court; crony; cut; day; days; delight; delightful; dinner; door; doubt; duke; earl; eccentric; echo; effect; eglantine; english; esq; eton; evening; eye; eyes; face; fair; fame; family; fancy; fashion; fashionable; father; favourite; fellow; female; find; fine; following; form; fortune; fresh; friend; gay; general; gentleman; george; glass; good; grand; great; green; group; half; hall; hand; head; heart; home; honour; honourable; hope; horace; horatio; host; hour; house; humour; illustration; jack; john; joke; kind; king; knowledge; ladies; lady; land; late; left; life; like; little; london; long; looking; lord; love; making; man; manners; mark; market; master; means; meet; men; merry; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; note; notice; number; o'er; order; oxford; park; party; pass; pay; person; place; play; pleasure; poet; point; poor; portraits; present; principal; public; return; road; room; round; royal; run; scene; scholars; school; sea; set; sir; sketches; society; son; spirit; sporting; spot; spy; state; stock; street; style; subject; table; taste; thing; thought; thy; time; tis; tom; town; transit; truth; turn; university; variety; view; visit; water; way; white; wife; wine; wit; work; world; worthy; years; young cache: 20001.txt plain text: 20001.txt item: #4 of 17 id: 26851 author: Hughes, Thomas title: Tom Brown at Oxford date: None words: 256165 flesch: 83 summary: And so saying, Mrs. Porter wished Tom good night, and led off her daughter. As the spur fell to the floor, the head reappeared in the room, and as quickly disappeared again, in deference to the other spur, the top boots, an ivory handled hair brush, and a translation of Euripides, which in turn saluted each successive appearance of said head; and the grin was broader on each reappearance. keywords: ambrose; bank; blake; boat; boy; boys; brown; business; captain; care; college; constable; course; cousin; crew; day; days; dear; door; drysdale; east; englebourn; evening; eyes; face; fact; father; feeling; fellow; find; friend; getting; going; good; grey; half; hall; hand; hardy; head; heart; help; hold; home; hope; hour; house; jack; katie; kind; left; letter; life; look; looking; making; man; mary; matter; mean; men; miller; mind; minute; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; new; night; open; oxford; party; people; place; poor; porter; rate; reading; rest; river; room; round; school; set; simon; sir; sitting; sort; street; subject; table; talk; talking; thing; thought; time; tom; town; turn; village; walk; want; water; way; winburn; winter; wish; work; world; year; young cache: 26851.txt plain text: 26851.txt item: #5 of 17 id: 28567 author: Turley, Charles title: Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate date: None words: 121017 flesch: 79 summary: His evidence was very different to that of the police, and I thought Jack Ward, who looked as if he had been having a dreadful time, was bound to get off. But I thought Jack Ward would not come unless I asked him myself, and that rotten jumble he talked about love on my bed, and a sort of feeling that Fred would not like him to come kept me from saying anything to him. keywords: bradder; bunny; college; collier; cuthbert; day; dennison; edwardes; end; father; faulkner; foster; fred; good; half; head; jack; jack ward; kind; lambert; look; lot; man; men; mind; morning; mother; mrs; murray; nina; oxford; people; place; play; read; right; room; round; sort; talk; thing; thought; time; varsity; ward; warden; way cache: 28567.txt plain text: 28567.txt item: #6 of 17 id: 31408 author: Wells, J. (Joseph) title: The Oxford Degree Ceremony date: None words: 21667 flesch: 56 summary: [Sidenote: The origin of Oxford University.] Degree ceremonies in those days went on to an interminable length, although the number graduating was only half what it is now. keywords: arts; candidate; century; ceremony; chancellor; college; degree; degree ceremony; divinity; doctors; dress; examinations; footnote; form; gown; m.a; m.a.s; master; mediaeval; new; oxford; present; proctors; sidenote; statutes; time; university; vice; years cache: 31408.txt plain text: 31408.txt item: #7 of 17 id: 32388 author: Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs. title: The New Warden date: None words: 101729 flesch: 87 summary: I'm so sorry, said Lady Dashwood, but he used to know May Dashwood, so we must ask him, and I thought it better to get him over at once and have done with it. He was disappointed at finding only Lady Dashwood in the drawing-room; but she had been really good natured in asking him to come and meet May Dashwood, so he was conversing freely with her when the door opened and Gwendolen Scott came in. keywords: bed; belinda; bingham; boreham; chair; dear; door; eyes; face; girl; good; gwen; gwendolen; hand; harding; head; jim; lady dashwood; left; letter; life; look; louise; man; mind; moment; mother; mrs; oxford; potten; right; robinson; room; round; scott; table; talk; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; want; warden; world cache: 32388.txt plain text: 32388.txt item: #8 of 17 id: 33096 author: Brown, Ivor John Carnegie title: Years of Plenty date: None words: 79636 flesch: 83 summary: Before long Martin quarrelled with Reggie Petworth, sulked foolishly, despaired of the term, and began to rely on the winter vacation and the subsequent six weeks of term to grapple with the problem of Mods. On reaching Oxford Martin sent a telegram: he was unavoidably prevented from seeing her. keywords: 8vo; anstey; berney; berrisford; books; boys; business; chard; college; conversation; course; crown; day; days; demy; elfrey; evening; finney; form; foskett; freda; god; good; gregson; half; hand; home; house; john; kind; know; lawrence; left; life; like; look; love; man; martin; matter; men; mind; mrs; net; new; oxford; people; place; play; point; randall; rayner; rendell; right; room; school; spots; study; talk; term; things; thought; time; uncle; way; woman; work; world; year; young cache: 33096.txt plain text: 33096.txt item: #9 of 17 id: 34525 author: Hogg, Thomas Jefferson title: Shelley at Oxford date: None words: 40942 flesch: 55 summary: Hogg, in fact, tacitly admitted the value of Bulwer's emendations by reprinting the articles in question in his biography of Shelley word for word as they appeared in the _New Monthly Magazine_, not in the form in which they originally left his pen. Never did a more finished gentleman than Shelley step across a drawing-room! keywords: age; air; book; character; cold; college; country; course; day; days; fire; hand; hogg; hour; knowledge; learning; left; life; man; manner; master; men; mind; nature; oxford; period; persons; place; poet; rooms; science; shelley; short; silence; study; time; truth; university; words; work; years cache: 34525.txt plain text: 34525.txt item: #10 of 17 id: 37893 author: Smith, Goldwin title: Oxford and Her Colleges: A View from the Radcliffe Library date: None words: 20026 flesch: 65 summary: _See_ Oxford University Commissions. Royal Society, The, 119 _et sq._ St. Frydeswide's Church, 35. The buildings of the Bodleian Library, University College, Oriel, Exeter, and some others, mediæval or half mediæval in their style, are Stuart in date. keywords: ages; buildings; century; christ; church; city; college; day; fellows; founder; hall; illustration; john; learning; library; life; mediæval; merton; new; oxford; quadrangle; scholars; statutes; students; study; system; time; university; university college cache: 37893.txt plain text: 37893.txt item: #11 of 17 id: 38180 author: Corbin, John title: An American at Oxford date: None words: 66657 flesch: 65 summary: In America, college men give comic operas and burlesques, usually writing both the book and the music themselves; and when they do, there is apt to be a Donnybrook Fair for vulnerable heads in the faculty. It was originally the Christ Church wine club, and to-day it is dominated by the sporting element of Christ Church, which is the most aristocratic of Oxford colleges. keywords: american; american college; american university; athletic; ball; clubs; college; college life; college system; course; day; degree; end; england; english; english college; english university; examination; fact; fellows; field; game; german; good; half; hall; harvard; history; honor; instruction; knowledge; lectures; life; literature; man; means; mediæval; men; new; oxford; oxford college; place; play; result; schools; spirit; student; subjects; system; time; training; tutor; undergraduate; union; universities; university; university college; university life; varsity; way; work; world; year cache: 38180.txt plain text: 38180.txt item: #12 of 17 id: 40338 author: Bede, Cuthbert title: The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Under-Graduate Being a Continuation of "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman" date: None words: 41034 flesch: 72 summary: Now, as Mr. Bouncer was a gentleman of considerable experience and was, too, (although addicted to expressions not to be found in the Polite Preceptor,) quite free from the vulgar habit of personal flattery,--or, as he thought fit to express it, in words which would have taken away my Lord Chesterfield's appetite, buttering a party to his face in the cheekiest manner,--we may fairly presume, on this strong evidence, that Mr. Verdant Green had really gained a considerable amount of experience during his Freshman's term, although there were still left in his character and conduct many marks of viridity which-- Time's effacing fingers, assisted by Mr. Bouncer's instructions, would gradually remove. One morning, Mr. Verdant Green and Mr. Bouncer were lounging in the venerable gateway of Brazenface. keywords: blades; bouncer; brazenface; chapter; charles; church; college; day; edition; end; engravings; foote; fosbrooke; freshman; friend; frontispiece; gentleman; giglamps; gown; green; hall; hand; head; hero; honeywood; illustration; ladies; lady; larkyns; life; look; manner; miss; new; oxford; party; pet; pucker; read; right; rooms; round; set; sir; small; smoke; street; term; time; town; university; verdant green; way; wine; word; work cache: 40338.txt plain text: 40338.txt item: #13 of 17 id: 41682 author: Smith, Logan Pearsall title: The Youth of Parnassus, and Other Stories date: None words: 36705 flesch: 82 summary: Their voices and ways made them seem like old friends to him there in that strange country. But I greet them as old friends now, the primroses, and cowslips, and daffodils.... keywords: arthur; college; course; crabbe; craik; foley; friends; garden; good; lamb; life; long; look; man; miss; moment; oxford; people; place; read; sutton; things; thought; time; waters; way; world; young cache: 41682.txt plain text: 41682.txt item: #14 of 17 id: 42247 author: Gooch, Richard title: Nuts to crack; or Quips, quirks, anecdote and facete of Oxford and Cambridge Scholars date: None words: 72921 flesch: 71 summary: (_Lort_ was his Christian name.) The finances of the latter obliged him to leave Cambridge _without_ a degree; after he had been assistant at Harrow, had a school at Stanmore, and been head master of the grammar school at Colchester, and had become head master of that of Norwich, they remained so low that once looking upon a small library, says Mr. Field, in his Life of the Doctor, his eye was caught by the title, 'Stephani Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ,' turning suddenly about, and striking violently the arm of the person whom he addressed, in a manner very unusual with him, 'Ah! keywords: account; author; bishop; book; cambridge; cantab; chancellor; character; christ; church; college; come; court; custom; day; days; dean; degree; dinner; divine; doctor; english; fact; famous; fellow; following; friend; gentleman; george; god; good; grace; great; greek; half; hall; hand; head; high; house; humour; james; jemmy; john; king; late; latin; learning; letter; library; life; like; london; long; lord; majesty; mallard; man; master; men; mind; morning; murder; new; night; occasion; oxford; party; place; porson; present; professor; public; queen; read; room; scholar; school; second; sir; society; son; student; subject; table; thing; thomas; thought; time; tom; trinity; trinity college; university; vice; volume; wag; way; william; wit; wood; work; writer; year; young cache: 42247.txt plain text: 42247.txt item: #15 of 17 id: 45290 author: Peel, Robert title: Oxford date: None words: 19543 flesch: 66 summary: no name captivates our sympathies more readily than that of Richard Steele, trooper and essayist, the friend of Addison and the husband of Prue. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE |IT was long and hotly maintained that University College was founded by Alfred the Great, and by celebrating its thousandth anniversary in 1872 the College would seem to have accepted this pious opinion. University College owes its existence to William of Durham, who, at his death in 1249, beqeathed to the University the sum of three hundred and ten marks for the use of ten or more _Masters_ (at that time the highest academical title) to be natives of Durham or its vicinity. keywords: bishop; buildings; century; chapel; church; college; days; foundation; great; hall; henry; illustration; john; king; library; magdalen; mary; matthison; members; men; merton; new; oxford; quadrangle; queen; river; sir; street; time; tower; university; view; william cache: 45290.txt plain text: 45290.txt item: #16 of 17 id: 46274 author: Headlam, Cecil title: Oxford and Its Story date: None words: 122439 flesch: 64 summary: The position of the students with regard to the country, is indicated by the old rhyme: Mark the Chronicles aright When Oxford scholars fall to fight Before many months expired England will with war be fired. INDEX Abelard, Peter, 68 Abingdon, village of, 23; toll of herrings paid to monastery of, 27 Act of Supremacy, 268 Addison, Joseph, demy at Magdalen, 349 Æthelred, the Unready, building of S. Frideswide by, 9-11 Agnellus of Pisa, builder of first school of Grey Friars, 99, 100 Alfred, King, claim of, as founder of University, 64, 65; relics of, 87, 88 Allen, Dr Thomas, astrologer, 102 Arthur, Prince, son of Henry VII., at Oxford, 235 Bacon, Roger, 100-102 Balliol, Sir John de, founder of Balliol Hall, 127, 128; intended work of, carried out by widow, 127, 128 Bancroft, Archbishop, Chancellor, prohibition by, of long hair, and other reforms instituted by, 306 Barbers, regulations concerning, 57, 58 Barnes, Joseph, new press at Oxford set up by, 243 Barons, struggle of, with King, and effect of at University, 208 _seq._ Basset, Alan, first endowment for Oxford scholar provided by, 81 Beaumont, palace at, built by Henry Beauclerk, 54; site of, 54; grant of, to Carmelite Friars, 103, 104 _Bedford Hall_, or Charleton's Inn, purchased for site of All Souls', 225 Bells, famous Osney, 49 Bible, Authorised Version, 307 ---- keywords: archbishop; bishop; body; books; buildings; cambridge; castle; cathedral; century; chancellor; chapel; charles; christ; christ church; church; city; college; common; country; court; day; days; death; east; edward; end; england; english; fact; fellows; form; foundation; founder; friars; gate; good; great; hall; henry; high; history; house; illustration; john; king; latin; law; learning; left; library; life; lincoln; london; lord; magdalen; magdalen college; man; master; mediæval; members; men; merton; new; night; north; number; old; order; oriel; oxford; paris; parliament; peter; place; present; quadrangle; queen; remains; robert; room; royal; s. frideswide; s. john; s. mary; scholars; schools; sir; site; souls; south; statutes; story; street; students; study; system; theology; thomas; time; tower; town; universities; university; university college; university hall; wall; way; west; william; wolsey; wood; work; world; wycliffe; years cache: 46274.txt plain text: 46274.txt item: #17 of 17 id: 4644 author: Bede, Cuthbert title: The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green date: None words: 121332 flesch: 69 summary: All these articles were presented to Mr. Verdant Green with many speeches and great ceremony; while Mr. Green stood by, and smiled benignantly upon the scene, and his son beamed through his glasses (which his defective sight obliged him constantly to wear) with the most serene aspect. As the coach clattered down the Corn-market, and turned the corner by Carfax into High Street, Mr. Bouncer, having been compelled in deference to University scruples to lay aside his post-horn, was consoling himself by chanting the following words, selected probably in compliment to Mr. Verdant Green. keywords: adventures; bed; black; blades; bouncer; brazenface; bull; chapter; character; charles; charles larkyns; church; coat; college; come; course; day; dogs; door; end; evening; eyes; family; fanny green; father; feel; feller; filcher; fosbrooke; freshman; friend; gentleman; giglamps; good; gown; half; hall; hand; head; heart; hero; high; home; honeywood; house; know; ladies; lady; larkyns; left; life; light; look; love; manner; manor green; mary; master; men; mind; miss; miss patty; morning; mrs; new; order; oxford; oxford freshman; patty; pet; place; present; room; round; saw; scene; set; sir; smalls; smoke; son; sort; state; street; term; things; think; thought; time; time mr; town; university; use; verdant green; water; way; white; wine; word; work cache: 4644.txt plain text: 4644.txt