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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 332 in It is many years ago since the present writer spent a long vacation in Oxford; and the description of it in the following pages will not be found, perhaps, to correspond in all particulars with the Oxford of the present day. He imagines, for instance, that Oxford is not now so entirely deserted by members of the University in the months of August and September as it used to be, and that, consequently, the contrast between Term time and Vacation is no longer so distinctly marked. The aspect of Oxford, moreover, during term itself, is considerably altered ?whether for the worse or for the better may be a moot point?since the present generation was the coming one. Then there were certain rules and understandings in regard to dress, which impressed a character of their own upon the streets and quadrangles of the gray old city. Men, as members of the University were then called, to distinguish them from everybody else, almost always wore their caps and gowns in the morning, both in college and abroad. Shooting-jackets, coloured suits, and wideawakes were only very rarely visible outside of the college gates; and when you turned out at two o'clock for your walk or ride, the black coat and regulation hat were as indispensable as in the streets of London: more so than they are now. This, however, is the case no longer. The undergraduate dresses at Oxford just as he would dress in a country house; and the exception is not to see men in beaver before the middle of the day, but to see them in any other headgear. Here, then, another great difference between term time and vacation disappears. While more men remain up, their outward appearance in the one season is less unlike what it is in the other than in the days to which I now refer. There has also been, of late yea...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217074629 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217074626 |
| Weight | 1.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.01 In |
| List Price | $32.01 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 452 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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