, 1880-12-19

| Tn The other Side OF the Sttluy anu Uet
chamber sweep a small stretch Of college
park, looking out on gardens with Ivy and
roses, and q clear little stream III which
from your windows, you can see the lishe:
swimming under the crystal waters, and ~
whose quiet bosom placid ducks and fl ilIoso;lt $50;
| Wide, roomy seats are built intu these win
dows, in the pleasant old English fashion
and
VERY DELIGHTFUL AND RESTFuL
they are when you look out from them on no
BILE trees, charming. gardens, and vtstas o1
pare this with the red brick walls ant
+ the bare wastes of clay, and, perhaps, tne
| barren, neglected campus, which form the
| encourage of {; new American sclOt,l, anC
leave their painful fotograf OH the minds o1
| its children.
| On the walls of these rooms, hang so1ne
| good cngrayings nnu small painting, d
| mounted fox-llead and ,br.tsl1. a worn horse
shoe. probably from the heels Of some tri.
FAINT racer, wi:ips, spurs. crossed oars, some
there tre also some books. The suites ot
the fellows are generally somewhat superior
in accommodation to those Of the under.
| graduates.
university is something very different from
that Of an American college. intellectually
it is something
FAR HIGHER AND STRONGER
| The undergraduate is not the central feature,
as with us, but only an Incident. The living
| college is the master and the fellows. The
undergraduates are but the younger 1nenl-
threshold Of the liouse-the little children
! who arc seen and not heard.
Again, not tile least part of the liberal Ell
dowlnent Of an English college is the tradi-
| ries down. by force Of which any student
| coming tt live within its walls and sharing
| its life receives tho training Of Il gentleman,
acquiring the personal habits and manners
| which lit linn for association with the better
classes Of society. III the average American
college the student leaves either boor or Il
| gentleman, just as he entered. In the Eli
| glish College, however, the home for nun
dreds of years of the sons Of gentlemen. the
habit Of lite las become fixed and traditional,
anu any boy goinE through it comes out with
that as part Of his education.
THE DAILY LIFE
Of the English college resident is simple, and
differs from ours distinctiyely in the care with
which 1t is arranged to distribute the time
for work and exercise or rest, and the ease
| with which it consequently bears oil the in
diyiduai The English student attains 4
but we never hear of his breaking down of
shattered nerves and prostrated brain. lie
takes more time, is true, but saves his body
ard his head.
n}s p bsts Il in your s se at 'ss cciocf
breakfast served In your front chamber at
or S o'clock; reading until l o'clock y. Ill.,,
when there comes a light lunch in your room,
-generally only breadand cheese and strong
college ale.
Lunch-hour ends absolutely the day OF
study or work. At this point the whole
coiIcge-master. fellows, and students-be-
takes itself to the open air, and spends the
whole afternoon. until Or 7 O'Clock, out Of
Il 1s.,pf Fcf, nj
athletic games. 1t is here the college-boy
buildsshinlself up for life. AT o'clock din
ner, anu from dinner to bedtime rest This
is the common schedule of an ordinary
university day - !'a havf heard that there are
far into the night, but write only Of what
have seen.
THE COLLEGE DINNER
Is an imposing and perhaps the central feat
ure of the daily life ut the University: Here,
in the great hall, the whole colIege meets to-
now the only general meeting Of the day,
compulsory prayers being abolished except
on extraordinary occasions. The hall itself
"A survival Of the old baronial times Of the
ays Of the o 1GaFg ta fad a
features of the college building. 1t is u fine
and lofty room, with arciled or fretted or
hantlsomely-tlesigncd root, the walls adorned
With Tlch nanelnE ad caTy59g statues
inscriptions, and hung with the portraits Of
statesmen, and solGiers. it S generally
oaken, with stone Or Wooden floors.
At one end OF the great hall. the fartheSt
from the entrance. on raised surface, is
placed the table Of the master and fellows.
extending across the room: on the lower
level of the floor are TABLES for the under
graduates, running the length Of the room,
and placed ut right angles with the masters
table. All are served
AT THE SAME TINE AND ALIKE.
When tue hour for dinner Comes. the master
and fet vs, with their guests if there arc
any, assemble in the combination rnonl,-
another fine chamber, of which n
and move from there into the dining-n III,
the ater opd sn Inc M same 01GT @as Of
ar any gentleman's table. AS the process
sion from the collblnation-rooH enters the
main hall. the undergraduates, who are al
ready seated, rise from their benches and
cession reaches tile head Of the table one Of
the students reads or int0ncs brief Latin
prayer, and all seat themselves. At the close
of the meal the same ceremony is repeated,
attention att % as the master and fellows % PASS Gut.
In Queens College, Oxford. | believe the
summons to dinner, is yet blown from
trumpet by tabarder; but this is excep~
This college dinner, taken thus every day
in the academic ancestral hail, in the pres
ence OF the etligies of great men and good
women: the founders and ancestors of the
house. in the midst Of historic associations
and venerable traditions, is the
DREss-rARADE OF UNIVERSITY LIFE.
The dinner, as should have said before,
is the ordinary solid English evening lneal of
four or live courses,-a SOUP, fish. roast
meat and vegetables, salad, and dessert.
Ale is served the undergraduates on allow