Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-09-03

Easter, from Wednesday of Easter
week to Friday before Whitsunday;
and Trinity, from Whitsunday to the
first Saturday after the first Tuesday
in July. The ordinary academic year
Is about 26 weeks. Twelve terms of
residence are required as minimum
for the degree of B. A., and 27 terms
for NJ. A. IL is seen, therefore, that
to be a Master of Arts Of Oxford" is
something to be justly proud of, as it
means at least about seven years faith.
ful work.
1t Is customary for students to
"read" with private tutor, who helps
them over the rough places. These
tutors generally get about $50 term,
1or three hours week. They are usp-
ally upper classmen, or post-graduates
working for higher degrees. The cost
of tuition paid to the colleges aver.
ages about 1925 for the whole three
years-not including tutors fees.
About G20O, or say $1,000, year is
the amount generally accepted as a
liberal allowance for all expenses of
young man studying at Oxford. The
very minimum would be half this. The
professors draw salaries UP to s45OO
year, the average being hardly $4,000.
The official title of the university
is: "The Chancellor, Masters, and
Scholars of the University of Oxford"
The university is mostly self-govcrn-
ing, and is republic in itself. There
are four representative bodies that
manage its affairs. There is the Heb
domadal Council or weekly meeting,
which is a sort of ways and means
committee; the House of Congrega-
tion sort of upper house or revis-
ory board, which grants degrees, etc.;
the Convocation, consisting of all the
Masters of Arts or graduate alumni OF
the university, which elects the two
members to parliament that law OF
James ] gives to the university; and
the Congregation of the University,
which passes laws for the govern
mcnt of the university, etc. Two proc
tors-a sort of police-have authority
over the department OF the students
one of the university bug-bears, as
will be recalled by those that nave
read TON Brown at Oxford"
The town of Oxford has about As
600 people. 1t is situated in a beauti-
ful rolling, pastoral country in one of
the sweetest and most romantic Sec
tions Of England-about SIS miles up
the Thames from London, though the
little river here is known by its more
classic name of Isis. The High street
OF principal thoroughfare of the town
has often been called the finest street
in the world. This does not mean that
any particular building is architecIur.
ally finer than those In any great city;
but the vast number of massive. hoary
and impressive structures makes the
whole sublime.
Oxford stands for kind of educa-
ton not much cultivated now in Amer
lea, where everything takes a practi'
cal turn. But Rhodes was practical
man and he knew Oxford; and he was
convinced that the influence Of that
great institution, operating on young
men of energy and resource, from
newer countries, would be a powerful
leaven for the betterment of the world
| Men of broad culture such as Oxford
can produce he knew would be in in
creasing demand in the coming time
And it may be that these students from
other lands will in turn be a powerful
element II the evolution of a newer
Oxford, which shall thus exert in.
creased influence on the progress OF
markind-TLe Pathfinder.