Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-05

| systems 10 be merely one Of lectures,
without Rotations. No questions are
asked In class room and the sole test
Of mans scholarship is in examina-
| lions at the end Of the term Each stu
| aent Is supposed TO have a tutor who
| looks over his work and revlses 1t from
| time to time, but the average man
does not work half as hard as the
American student and the education
given Is undoubtedly far below that Of
eur chief universities, -
LATIN AND GREEK.
II is commonly said that more study
is 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 or Princeton. Examinations,
for instance, may be taken at home,
and II boy has good foundation In
Latin and Greek, he gets In without
trouble. After admission he attends
lectures as closely or as loosely as he
pleases, the only requirement being
that he pass the examination.
ONLY HALF AS MUCH STUDY AS
WE HAVE.
The university course OF study Is
practically only half as long as that
OF our colleges. II nomlnally runs for
three years, but each year is divided
In half, and one-half Of II the student
spends at home, or away from oxford
During this time he is supposed TO be
studying by himself, but this is mole
suppositlon than anything else. This
leaves three years of six months each,
or Is months for the college course.
Our colleges require four years of at
least nine months, or SG months In all,
and II H. fair to say that the Ameri-
can student gets I'm more hard study
In one month OF this time than the OK
ford man does In two. | have before
me book recommended by the head
of the Bodleian library, the chief IL
brary of oxford, and one Of the great
libraries OF the world, giving reliable
information about the university Acc
cordng 70 this the average man hert
spends his day as follows. He gives his
mornings to work, his afternoons TO
play and his evenings 70 such social
recreatlons as pleases him most. He
entertalns his friends at breakfast,
.uncheons and wines, and often goes In
for rowing, cricket and football, which
nre the chief sports Of the institution.
| have talked with both professors and
students, and as far as can learn the
men here have much more leisure than
In our American colleges, ana to many
OF them a university course is more
llay than work.
[ can give you better Idea Of college
life by taking you through one of these
institutions. Let us visit Christ Church
college. II has 300 students and is the
richest and most aristocratic OF the %
colleges which make up the university.
The others are much the same, only
smaller although every one covers sew
eral acres and would be considered
large outside OF oxford. The buildings
OF Christ Church, with their quadran-
giles, must have an area OF 10 acres.
The chief structure fronts on Cornmar-
ket street not far from the Thames. Its
front IL longer than a big American
city block, and with It's great tower at
the end II looks more like a fort than
a college. There IL a gate In the center
with a statue OF Cardinal Wolsey above
II and stone tower rising over II. AT
the gate there is a dOOrkeeper always
on guard. He closes the gate at night
with massive doors and scrutinizes
I'll WIN 81 iiiAo INV NShNsN
during the daytime.
BIG TOM AND THE OXFORD CUR
FEW.
In the tower over the gate Is the
great bell Of the university. II is
known as Big Tom, and II nightly rings
the curfew OF the university. The bell
weighs eight tons, and its dlng-dong
can be heard for miles about Oxford.
The curfew bell is rung at five minutes
past 3. At this time the sound Of l0l
strokes Is heard warning the students
that they must be In their rooms In the
college and that II they are not they
will be fined and punished.
As soon as the bell stops ringing the
two proctors OF the university start out
with their assistants TO look up recre-
ant students The proctors might be
called the chief OF the college police
They are university men, and each has
four assistants taken from the town
people TO help him. 80 that IN all the
posse OF college police which makes its
nightly round numbers 10. The assist
ants are, called buiidogs--they might be
called bloodhounds, for II is their busi-
ness to track down the fleeing UNDER
graduates The proctors first make
their regular round OF the billiard sa-
Icons and beer houses and warn the