Afterwards Mr. Maud Conducted Me To The Bodleian Library, Which Is
Not Unworthy Of Being Compared To The Vatican At Rome; And Next To
The Building Which Is Called The Theatre, And Where The Public
Orations Are Delivered.
This is a circular building with a gallery
all round it, which is furnished with benches one above the other,
on which the doctors, masters of arts, and students sit, and
directly opposite to each other are erected two chairs, or pulpits,
from which the disputants harangue and contend.
Christ Church and Queen's College are the most modern, and, I think,
indisputably the best built of all the colleges. Balliol College
seems particularly to be distinguished on account of its antiquity,
and its complete Gothic style of building.
Mr. Maud told me that a good deal of money might be sometimes earned
by preaching at Oxford; for all the members of a certain standing
are obliged in their turn to preach in the church of the university;
but many of them, when it comes to their turn, prefer the procuring
a substitute; and so not unfrequently pay as high as five or six
guineas for a sermon.
Mr. Maud also told me he had been now eighteen years at this
university, and might be made a doctor whenever he chose it: he was
a master of arts, and according to his own account gave lectures in
his college on the classics. He also did the duty and officiated as
curate, occasionally, in some of the neighbouring villages.
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