This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...place a nose made of brass over the door of Brasenose College! In Exeter quadrangle there is a chestnut tree which has always gone by the name of "Heber's Tree," because it is just under the window of Heber's room at Brasenose. There is another tree, on which, when the figs were ripe, one Dr. Kennicott, wishing to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...place a nose made of brass over the door of Brasenose College! In Exeter quadrangle there is a chestnut tree which has always gone by the name of "Heber's Tree," because it is just under the window of Heber's room at Brasenose. There is another tree, on which, when the figs were ripe, one Dr. Kennicott, wishing to reserve it for personal delectation, stuck a label, inscribed "Dr. Kennicott's Fig Tree." An undergraduate removed this sign, and substituted one reading " A fig for Dr. Kennicott!" Keble College is a brick and tile abomination. In the many museums in Oxford there are fascinating objects of interest. One that appealed to me very much was an old picture of Drake with a pistol. The guide used to claim that this was the very pistol with which Drake "shot the gulf!" (This was the usual term when any one went on the other side of the known world.) I was also much edified by seeing the original drawings of Sir Christopher Wren for St. Paul's Cathedral. I wondered why the result was not more full of beauty, although it has majesty. There is also the skull of a Greek girl with a braid of well preserved hair. She was found buried with a copy or Homer under her head. It is an amusing instance of the gradual corruption of names when one realizes that the little carving over the door in St. Catherine's Hall represented the Salutation of the Virgin, and that the original name, " Piges washael," has come down to our days as the " Pig and Whistle!" There is a theory that the walls around the colleges are very secure, and that, when the gates are closed, no one can escape. It would be difficult to plan a more ingenious device to tempt youths to stray than to proclaim such a condition. Naturally the chief...
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