The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-06

like it, and it would take, lifetime and more than one to comprehend and enjoy 1t satisfactorily"
 on the globe, but none like this Oxford is more impressive than Athens and the spirit of learned antiquity seems to mover more closely over it than over the> older ruins of India China and Japan. For more than 600 years men have gathered here for study. Tradition ascribes OK ford's foundation to King Alfred m SiE. When it began 1t was connected with the monasteries, but for more than seven centuries 1t was university pure and simple. During the middle ages It nau as many as 5000 students at one tme' and on through the. centuries new col leges have grown up about 1t, ana iI has held it's own as one of the cnlef eouca- tionaI institutions of the world
 Twenty-three Different Colleges.
 The town of Oxford has now 5000 peo- ple. It is situated sixty miles from Lon don in the heart of rural England. It IS embraced by the Isis or Upper Thames; and the CherweI. which here join and flow on to London, as the Thames to the sea. The colleges are scattered all over the city. They are not ike our great schools and you can get no ldea or them by such comparisons.
 Oxford University Is not one college, but twenty three colleges. Each college has it's own buildings massive stone structures of two and thTee stories sur
 
 with mighty trees lining the streets m front of them, and parks are scattered here and there about them. By some the Isis and the Cherwell noW and Tn others stand trees centuries old
 The colleges are indescrfbable in their time-worn and venerable grandeur. Many of, them are more like monasterles than colleges They have their cloisters look ing out upon the auadrangles and through their carved doorways you might expect to see a monk in gown and cowl come forth. The walls are fairly chewed py the teeth of time. The pillars have holes in them ike those in the bark of a mighty tres long since dead, and on the roofs of some the slate, is as worn as the wooden shingles of a house 100 years old. Each college has its chapel and dining hsII with its windows of stained glass, many of them painted by the old masters. Some have walls beautifully carved, some are paneled in oak and wondrous archi- lecture meets you at every step.
 How Colleges Are Constituted.
 Each college is independent of the oth- CTS. Each has it's own students, It's own professors and it's own lecturers, although the students of the various colleges may attend lectures where they please. The students of a college live In 1t, ana the number varies according to the room and popularity of the institution. At present there are 3,50O undergraduates going tc school here. There are fifty professor and a large number of tutors.
 The system Of instruction IS olHerent from anything we have at home, and 1t seems to me that the American boys Will have an easy time and will be able to take honors without working as hard as in the United States. The system seems to be merely one of lectures without reef tations. No questions are asked in class room, and the sole test of a mans schol- arship Is in examinations at the end of the term. Each student is supposed to have d tutor who looks over his work and reVises it from time to time, but the average man does not work half as hard as the American student and the educa- tIon given is undoubtedly far below that of our chief universities.
 Latin and Greek.
 It Is commonly said that more study ls required in preparation for Oxford than in the carrying out of the college course. The requirements are about the same as for the classical course of Yale. Harvard ar Princeton. Examinations, for instance.