. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . ADDISONS WALK, MAGDALEN COLLEGE. 40 Aldens Oxford Guide. ranges a I >ng castellated fa9ade, its dark-grey contours broken by oriel windows,and the Dright emerald of Us turfed quadrangles shining out of two massivegateway^. {Daily Te/egrapk, ]wne, 1872.) That ancient edifice is 18. U iiversity College. No other college has so vener-able a look ; albeit, to tell the truth, the appearance is due ratherto the soft oolitic stone of which the college was built than to theactual mi 1 lity of its existing p
. Alden's Oxford guide : with key-plan of the University and city, and numerous engravings . ADDISONS WALK, MAGDALEN COLLEGE. 40 Aldens Oxford Guide. ranges a I >ng castellated fa9ade, its dark-grey contours broken by oriel windows,and the Dright emerald of Us turfed quadrangles shining out of two massivegateway^. {Daily Te/egrapk, ]wne, 1872.) That ancient edifice is 18. U iiversity College. No other college has so vener-able a look ; albeit, to tell the truth, the appearance is due ratherto the soft oolitic stone of which the college was built than to theactual mi 1 lity of its existing portions. University College, as it. 114) THE HIGH STREET. now stands, was erected between 1634 and 1675, ^^ ^^^^.t stormyperiod when King Charles I was holding his broken Parliamentin the city, and the University was melting down its plate to coinmoney for his losing cause. But as a college its origin is far moreancient; and tradition ascribes to King Alfred the first establish-ment of a University Hall upon this spot. Although this traliti ),i University College. 41 has been sanctioned by a legal decision, and by the celebration in 1872 of the so-called millenary of the foundation, yet it is quite without historical basis. The facts were thus stated by the late Professor Freeman (art. in Saturday Review):— *The histor} of Oxford begins in the tenth century ; in the eleventh it wasa place of the first importance as a military post, and as the scene of greatnational gatherings. But it is not till the twelfth that we get the first hints ofthe coming University, the first glimpses of schools, scholars, and lecturers;and
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