Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-06


the town Of Oxford as well. The vice chan
cellor can order Objectionable persons to
leave the city and can enforce the going
away of young women whose characters
tend to injure the morality OF the students.
The officials can imprison such characters
and fine them, and they do their best to
keep them out of oxford.
Inside an Oxford College.
But let us enter the gate under which
Big Tom hangs. 1t is now noon and the
heavy doors are thrown back. You can
see a wicket in one of them through which
the doorkeeper looks at night and takes
the name of the student who calls after
hours and collects his fine. We pass on
into the quadrangle. This is an immense
hollow court of about four acres, covered
with grass, shaved as closely as though it
were caTpeted. There is a fountain in the
center and wide, well-kept walks radiate
from this to the main entrances of the
buildings. This is only one quadrangle of
the institution. Christ Church has five.
but this is the largest and finest. The
great stone structure about it is Of only
two stories, but the ceilings are so high
that it has the e fleet of a four-story
building CT the United States.
The walls are entered by arched doors
much like those of a great vault. A wide
stone pavement runs clear around the
building, corresponding TO the ~cloisters Of
some of the other colleges, and on this You
may see students in black caps and gowns
walking.
The many windows which look out upon
the court have long boxes of flowers in
them. These windows belong to the stu
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suite of two or three rooms of his own. He
has a bedroom, a sitting room and a bath
room, and the colleges are so large that
there is no crowding. The rooms are well
lighted, but the heating of them is by
CRATES.
student Life and Expenses.
made a number Of inquiries about the
expenses Of living at oxford. / find than
the American boys with their 81 500 a year
Will be better provided for than the aver
, age English undergraduates. The best au-
? thorities state that a man who is careful
5 can live at oxford on $500 a year, IL he has
= a home at which to spend his vacations.
5 He is at Oxford only six months, and this
3 means an average Of a little more than
e Sl33 a month. Some men cut down their
S college life to about $500 a year, but a
. SlSal many SpSuu mOIF' Inc eulIduC6 lSC
4 at most of the colleges is $25. In addition
r a deposit of $50 is required to cover
kitchen and other fees. The matriculation
fee is $3.50, and it costs from 800 to $500
4 to furnish ones rooms. l have in this
. statement reduced the pounds sterling to
/, American money.
[ Each student has his rooms in the col
lege free of rent, but he must have his own
a furniture, The custom is to buy the furnl-
e ture Of the last occupant. The college has
v a professional v~aluator, who fixes the
g amount to be paid. and the incoming stu
e dent adds such things as he pleases, and
takes away such furniture as he wishe.
upon his departure, Many of the rooms
are magnihcently fitted up. They have
easy chairs and luxuriant couches. Or
= their walls are fine pictures and on the
u floors Turkish rugs.
TIL Students live in the colleges much as
7, in a hotel. Each man has a servant, whom
. he shares with seven or eight others. The
: servant is known as a scout" He runs
= errands, takes care Of the rooms and serves
- such OF the meals as are taken in the
u rooms.
10 Each college has a common kitchen
where all the cooking is done, and eacl
! has a common dining room or banquet hall
where all the students meet in the evenin!
for dinner. In the hall there is a readinl
r. desk, at which one Of the professors Stands
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