These Are Called Deturs.
The Degrees Are Given On Commencement Day, At Which Occasion
Certain Of The Expectant Graduates Are Selected To Take Parts In A
Public Literary Exhibition.
To be so selected seems to be
tantamount to taking a degree in honors.
There is also a dinner on
Commencement Day, at which, however, "no wine or other intoxicating
drink shall be served."
It is required that every student shall attend some place of
Christian worship on Sundays; but he, or his parents for him, may
elect what denomination of church he shall attend. There is a
university chapel on the university grounds which belongs, if I
remember aright, to the Episcopalian church. The young men, for
the most part, live in college, having rooms in the college
buildings; but they do not board in those rooms. There are
establishments in the town, under the patronage of the university,
at which dinner, breakfast, and supper are provided; and the young
men frequent one of these houses or another as they, or their
friends for them, may arrange. Every young man not belonging to a
family resident within a hundred miles of Cambridge, and whose
parents are desirous to obtain the protection thus provided, is
placed, as regards his pecuniary management, under the care of a
patron; and this patron acts by him as a father does in England by
a boy at school. He pays out his money for him and keeps him out
of debt. The arrangement will not recommend itself to young men at
Oxford quite so powerfully as it may do to the fathers of some
young men who have been there.
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