{"product_id":"2940014553414","title":"Aspects Of Modern Oxford","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    I--OF DONS AND COLLEGES\u003cbr\u003e    II--OF UNDERGRADUATES\u003cbr\u003e    III--OF SIGHTSEERS\u003cbr\u003e    IV--OF EXAMINATIONS\u003cbr\u003e    V--UNIVERSITY JOURNALISM\u003cbr\u003e    VI--THE UNIVERSITY AS SEEN FROM OUTSIDE.\u003cbr\u003e    VII--DIARY OF A DON\u003cbr\u003e    VIII--THE UNIVERSITY AS A PLACE OF LEARNED LEISURE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                  ――――\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                         LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Cornmarket Street.  _By T. H. Crawford_ . . . . . . . . .\u003cbr\u003e_Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Christchurch Cathedral.  _By J. H. Lorimer_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew College, Oxford.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCorpus Christi College.  _By J. H. Lorimer_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmoking-Room at the Union.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCricket in the Parks.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWaiting for the Cox.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRingoal in New College.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGolf at Oxford. The Plateau Hole And Arnold’s Tree.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCommemoration: Outside the Sheldonian Theatre.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn College Rooms.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Ball at Christchurch.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Deer Park, Magdalen College, Oxford.  _By J. H. Lorimer_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Convocation: Conferring a Degree.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Lecture-Room in Magdalen College.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Library, Merton College.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReading the Newdigate.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Dance at St. John’s.  _By T. H. Crawford_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Radcliffe.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the Bodleian.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSailing on the Upper River.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePorch of St. Mary’s.  _By J. Pennell_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Exeter College Chapel.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParsons’ Pleasure.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFencing.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLawn Tennis at Oxford.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBowls in New College Garden.  _By L. Speed_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoaching the Eight.  _By J. H. Lorimer_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvening on the River.  _By E. Stamp_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                        ASPECTS OF MODERN OXFORD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI--OF DONS AND COLLEGES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    ’We ain’t no thin red heroes, nor we ain’t no blackguards too,\u003cbr\u003e    But single men in barracks, most remarkable like you.’\u003cbr\u003e      _Rudyard Kipling_.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFellows of Colleges who travel on the continent of Europe have, from\u003cbr\u003etime to time, experienced the almost insuperable difficulty of\u003cbr\u003eexplaining to the more or less intelligent foreigner their own reason of\u003cbr\u003eexistence, and that of the establishment to which they are privileged to\u003cbr\u003ebelong.  It is all the worse if your neighbour at the _table d’hôte_ is\u003cbr\u003eacquainted with the Universities of his own country, for these offer no\u003cbr\u003eparallel at all, and to attempt to illustrate by means of them is not\u003cbr\u003eonly futile but misleading.  Define any college according to the general\u003cbr\u003escheme indicated by its founder; when you have made the situation as\u003cbr\u003eintelligible as a limited knowledge of French or German will allow, the\u003cbr\u003einquirer will conclude that ’_also_ it is a monastic institution,’ and\u003cbr\u003ethat you are wearing a hair shirt under your tourist tweeds.  Try to\u003cbr\u003edisabuse him of this impression by pointing out that colleges do not\u003cbr\u003ecompel to celibacy, and are intended mainly for the instruction of\u003cbr\u003eyouth, and your Continental will go away with the conviction that an\u003cbr\u003eEnglish University is composed of a conglomeration of public schools.\u003cbr\u003eIf he tries to get further information from the conversation of a casual\u003cbr\u003eundergraduate, it will appear that a _Ruderverein_ on the Danube offers\u003cbr\u003emost points of comparison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFellows themselves fare no better, and are left in an--if\u003cbr\u003epossible--darker obscurity. That they are in some way connected with\u003cbr\u003eeducation is tolerably obvious, but the particular nature of the\u003cbr\u003econnexion is unexplained. Having thoroughly confused the subject by\u003cbr\u003eshowing inconclusively that you are neither a monk, nor a schoolmaster,\u003cbr\u003enor a _Privat Docent_, you probably acquiesce from sheer weariness in\u003cbr\u003ethe title of _Professor_, which, perhaps, is as convenient as any other;\u003cbr\u003eand, after all, _Professoren_ are very different from Professors.  But\u003cbr\u003eall this does nothing to elucidate the nature of a College.  To do this\u003cbr\u003eabroad is nearly as hard as to define the function of a University in\u003cbr\u003eEngland.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146132472048,"sku":"2940014553414","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014553414_p0.jpg?v=1763611167","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014553414","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}