Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
I--OF DONS AND COLLEGES II--OF UNDERGRADUATES III--OF SIGHTSEERS IV--OF EXAMINATIONS V--UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM VI--THE UNIVERSITY AS SEEN FROM OUTSIDE. VII--DIARY OF A DON VIII--THE UNIVERSITY AS A PLACE OF LEARNED LEISURE.
Twelve: time to do a little quiet work before lunch. Gentleman who was out after twelve last night comes to explain. Was detained in a friend's room (reading) and did not know h...
3. Part 3He who is responsible for the proper conduct of a gang of relations or friends will not treat them in this way. He will endeavour, so far as possible, to confine them within the...
5. Part 5It has been said that the function of a University is to criticise; but the proposition is at least equally true that Oxford and Cambridge are continually conjugating the verb i...
2. Part 2His own reason of existence is not so obvious. It was, as we have said, tolerably clear that the mediaeval student came to Oxford primarily for the love of learning something, a...
1. Part 1I--OF DONS AND COLLEGES II--OF UNDERGRADUATES III--OF SIGHTSEERS IV--OF EXAMINATIONS V--UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM VI--THE UNIVERSITY AS SEEN FROM OUTSIDE. VII--DIARY OF A DON VIII--...
4. Part 4However small its beginnings it was inevitable that the recognition of intellect should exercise the greatest influence--though not immediately and obviously--on the future of t...
7. Part 7Well, let the idle undergraduate make the most of his time now; it is not likely that he will be able to loaf in after-life. Nor (for the matter of that) will his successors be...