Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-12
STUDENT LIFE AT OXFORD

"hat 1ounE Americans Who Ga There
Will Find.
In undergraduate life An oxford tbo
student from America will find many
interesting features. He will, no doubt.
be assigned to college rather than he
aiioWed to choose one. as the will of
CecA Rhodes expresses the desire that;
TIE scholars holding the scholarships
SHAH be distributed. among the COLLEGES
or the University of Oxford and not
resort In undue numbers to one OF more
colleges only"
Tkre are twenty-five colleges in the
University, all Of which, educationauy
considered, are equal. Reasons of rank
in life Of parental or local associations.
of wealth, Of religious tendencies.
rather than reasons Of purely aca-
demic nature, lead an English boy to
choose one or another Of these colleges,
The colleges. differ in externals. Some
Of them are rich, others poor; some OF
them are comparatively large-three or
four hundred students-others VERY
small; some are expensively carried on,
others inexpensively; some are "pass,"
others are reading colleges; some have
high residence fees, others low; some
have no graduate students, and one,
All Souls, no undergraduate students;
some have superb buildings, others
palmer; and one, the Mont Collegiate,
has no building at all, and hardly any
faculty, being governed by the univef.-
sity through committee called '4del-
egacy for unattached students" But
any one of these colleges Will be q
worthy foster mother to the under
graduate. The student will pay his fees
to his college, and will be watched
over by 1t Throughout his whole course.
He will not get all Of his instruction in
its lecture rooms, for the community
of interest idea has penetrated modern
Oxford, and for certain subjects the
resident student will be apt to go to
another college, but his student life
will be mainly within the college walls.
He will, If fortunate enough to get
one, have a room on one Of the 'stair-
cases." will be served by the scout"
who will bring him his breakfast, will
dine in state in the hall every evening,
will worship in the college chapel, and
will shorten his walks abroad SO that
he can get within the college gates be-
fore they close for the night. He wiz
row in the college boat or play on tie,
college cricket team, and will hare. a,
special adviser, a college tutor, to, whom
he will look back with gratitu9a and re-
spect all the days of his life,
He will find Oxford as. expensive as
Harvard or Yale. His strictly college
expenses, for tuition. board and daily
living, exclusive Of books, clothing, so
cieties, sports and luxuries, will vary
from mintMum of $500 a. year to u
maximum difficult to estimate. OF the
colleges. Keble, Jesus, New College and
Worcester make special effort to aid the
student in economy; Christ Church,
University, Magdaien and Balliol are
the most expensive; Brasenase, St.
Johns, Exeter. Orfel and Trinity stand
in an intermediate position.
i The student will have to be fairly
economical at the, average college, says
Francis Hovey Stoddard in the Re-
view, Of Reviews, to keep his total ex-
penses within the $500 yearly sug-
gested In the will as the income for
each scholarship.