OR, HOW ROSS GOT HIS DEGREE. BY A RESIDENT M.A. BIBLIOTE BODLEIAN London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. PREFACE. "OXFORD DAYS" is not shaped on the lines of either Verdant Green or Tom Brown at Oxford. Its purpose, rather, is to furnish a practical guide to all the features of University life; but it has been thought that, by adopting the narrative form, the dry bones of a handbook may be made to live. Oxford, 1879. OXFORD DAYS; OR, HOW ROSS GOT HIS DEGREE. CHAPTER I. GONE то OXFORD. THERE was a long discussion between the Vicar of Porchester and Mr. Ross, the lawyer, as they walked together after evening service to the vicarage. Frank Ross was just eighteen, the eldest of six brothers. He was still at school, but it was time for him to go to the University. Oxford had been chosen-not from any notion of superiority to Cambridge, but simply because of school and home associations. The difficulty was the choice of a college. The vicar-a well-to-do bachelor an old Eton and Christ-Church man, advised his own college. But Mr. Ross was frightened. "Christ-Church " to him had ever B |