Five Years in an English University, Volume 1G. P. Putnam, 1852 |
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Page 1 - The sage council, as has been mentioned in a preceding chapter, not being able to determine upon any plan for the building of their city — the cows, in a laudable fit of patriotism, took it under their peculiar charge, and as they went to and from pasture, established paths through the bushes, on each side of which the good folks built their houses ; which is one cause of the rambling and picturesque turns and labyrinths, which distinguish certain streets of New York at this very day.
Page 411 - ... recommended that on the Friday, the questions from books should extend only to such parts of pure Mathematics and of Natural Philosophy as do not require the methods of the Differential or Fluxional Calculus : and that on the Saturday, the questions should include, besides these subjects, the parts of Natural Philosophy somewhat more advanced, and the simpler applications of the Calculus.
Page 414 - The elementary parts of Astronomy, so far as they are necessary for the explanation of the more simple phenomena, without the use of spherical trigonometry ; astronomical instruments.
Page 319 - E was one of the first that had a suspicion of this from noticing on the second day that he wrote with the regularity and velocity of a machine. In any Cambridge examination, pace is a most important element of success. The "pace of Parkinson" has at Cambridge almost passed into a proverb.
Page 411 - But if any candidate shall, before the end of the time, have answered all the questions in the paper, the Examiners may, at their discretion...
Page 200 - The private tutor at an English University corresponds, as has been already observed, in many respects to the Professor at a German. The German professor is not necessarily attached to any specific chair; he receives no fixed stipend, and has not public lecture rooms ; he teaches at his own house, and the number of his pupils depends on his reputation.
Page 46 - ... college to another. At Christ's, for three years successively, the first man was an emigrant from John's. — Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 100. See Migration. EMPTY BOTTLE. At the University of Cambridge, Eng., the sobriquet of a fellow-commoner. Indeed they [fellow-commoners] are popularly denominated
Page 65 - Caius boat looked the very personification of excitement; he bent over at every pull till his nose almost touched the stroke's arm, cheering his men meantime at the top of his voice. The shouts rose louder and louder. " Pull, Trinity !" " Pull, Keys !" " Go it, Trinity !"
Page 27 - The table nearer the door is filled by students in the ordinary Undergraduate blue gown ; but from the better service of their table, and perhaps some little consequential air of their own, it is plain that they have something peculiar to boast of. They are the Foundation Scholars, from whom the future Fellows are to be chosen, in the proportion of about one out of three. Their Scholarships are gained by examination in the second or third year, and entitle them to a pecuniary allowance from the college,...
Page 60 - ... there here where the students average one hour a day real exercise? Our Columbia boys ' roll ten-pins and play billiards, which is better than nothing, but very inferior to out-door amusements. In New England (at least it was so ten years ago at Yale), the last thing thought of is...