Rowlandson's Oxford

Charles James Fox--Earl of Malmesbury--William Eden--Cards and claret--Midnight oil--Oxford friendships remembered afterwards--Edward Gibbon--Delicate bookworm--Antagonism towar...

There is some indefinable element in the atmosphere of Oxford which has always excited an itch for writing. The sister university can, of course, point to many sons whose names...

William Collins--Joins the Smarts--Forgets how to work--Oxford kills his will-power--Loses his reason--Samuel Johnson at Pembroke--A lonely freshman--Translates Pope’s _Messiah_...

It would be impossible to live in Oxford and be healthy--except perhaps in the summer term, if we are lucky enough to have any sun--without taking exercise. It has long been a m...

_The Student_ was followed after a lapse of some eighteen years by the _Oxford Magazine_, a monthly miscellany. Devoted to no one particular object, the editors declared its col...

Year by year the places of those who go down are filled by succeeding generations of public school men--men who are more conservative in ideas than the members of any other clas...

The examiners--Perjury and bribery--Method of examining--College Fellows--Election to Fellowships--Gibbon and the Magdalen Dons--Heads of colleges--Their domestic and public cha...

On the first day of January, 1750, there appeared the first number of _The Student_. The sub-title read: _The Oxford Monthly Miscellany_. For two years it ran successfully, and,...

Nowadays work is a factor in university life which has to be seriously reckoned with. However strong one’s intentions to do none, however convinced one may be of the complete ab...

The advice tendered to freshmen in Amhurst’s amazing and bitterly satirical letter is for those who have been matriculated. They must, therefore, fulfil all the rites of matricu...

Like Nemesis, the Oxford tradesman has sooner or later to be reckoned with. His methods are, and for that matter always were, rather spider-like. He sets out a beautiful and ent...

Just as the schoolmaster is considered the natural enemy of boys, so is the Don popularly credited with being the natural enemy of the Undergraduates. The originator of this won...

One of the most interesting things to study at the university is the way in which a man gets into a certain set. Let me take for example a group of freshmen who come from the sa...

In the year of grace nineteen hundred and eleven there are three main divisions of the genus Undergraduate:--scholars, commoners, and “toshers,” the last sometimes known as non-...

The beginning of our university career is marked, unless we be Stoics, by mixed feelings of elation and a sinking at the pit of the stomach which we afterwards learn to recognis...

Proctors--The Black Book--Personal spite and the taking of a degree--The case of Meadowcourt of Merton--Extract from Black Book--The taverner and the Proctor--Izaak Walton and t...

How few of us there are to-day who ever devote even the slack hour between tea and “hotters” and Hall to finding out something at least about the Undergraduates who had our room...

What is an Oxford toast? For answer I cannot do better than turn to that Oxford _Encyclopædia_, Terrae Filius, who from the ambush of his anonymity, directed his fire upon all t...

There were many other minor literary outputs which made their appearance from time to time through the century, but it would be tedious to analyse all of them. The outstanding o...

William Collins--Joins the Smarts--Forgets how to work-- Oxford kills his will-power--Loses his reason--Samuel Johnson at Pembroke--A lonely freshman--Translates Pope’s _Messiah...

The examiners--Perjury and bribery--Method of examining-- College Fellows--Election to Fellowships--Gibbon and the Magdalen Dons--Heads of colleges--Their domestic and public ch...

Proctors--The Black Book--Personal spite and the taking of a degree--The case of Meadowcourt of Merton--Extract from Black Book--The taverner and the Proctor--Isaac Walton and t...

Charles James Fox--Earl of Malmesbury--William Eden--Cards and claret--Midnight oil--Oxford friendships remembered afterwards--Edward Gibbon--Delicate bookworm--Antagonism towar...

Rowing--Dame Hooper’s--Southey at Balliol--Cox’s six-oared crew--The river-side barmaid--Sailing-boats--Statutes against games--Bell-ringing--Hearne and gymnasia--Horses and bad...

Ceremony of matriculation--Paying the swearing-broker-- Colman and the Vice-Chancellor--Learning the Oxford manner--_Homunculi Togati_--Academia and a mother’s love--The jovial...