OXFORD DAYS;
OR,
HOW ROSS GOT HIS DEGREE.
By A RESIDENT M.A.
London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.
1879.
[All rights reserved.]
LONDON:
GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,
ST. JOHN’S SQUARE.
PREFACE.
“Oxford Days” is not shaped on the lines ofeither Verdant Green or Tom Brown at Oxford.Its purpose, rather, is to furnish a practical guideto all the features of University life; but it hasbeen thought that, by adopting the narrativeform, the dry bones of a handbook may be madeto live.
Oxford, 1879.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
CHAPTER I.
Gone to Oxford1
CHAPTER II.
An Oxford Sunday23
CHAPTER III.
The Freshman’s Term39
CHAPTER IV.
The Eights51
CHAPTER V.
The Long Vacation68
CHAPTER VI.
“The Flying Terms”77
CHAPTER VII.
A Reading Party88
CHAPTER VIII.
In the Thick of it120
CHAPTER IX.
The Close139
CHAPTER X.
Gown at Last149
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OXFORD DAYS;
OR,
HOW ROSS GOT HIS DEGREE.
CHAPTER I.
GONE TO OXFORD.
There was a long discussion between the Vicarof Porchester and Mr. Ross, the lawyer, as theywalked together after evening service to thevicarage. Frank Ross was just eighteen, theeldest of six brothers. He was still at school,but it was time for him to go to the University.Oxford had been chosen—not from any notion ofsuperiority to Cambridge, but simply because ofschool and home associations. The difficulty wasthe choice of a college. The vicar—a well-to-dobachelor—an old Eton and Christ-Church man,advised his own college. But Mr. Ross wasfrightened. “Christ-Church” to him had ever[2]been a terror, and meant waste of time and money,in the shape of cards, drink, and horse-flesh; andall the                         
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