Between nine and one o’clock the different species of Oxford kind are either within doors--sleeping, talking, or working--or to be seen in various conditions of unrest; observers and observed in the High, in pairs or singly; and, if freshmen, either stately in scholars’ gowns or apparently anxious to convince others that they have just picked up their commoners’ gowns; sauntering to the book-shops, or to look at a cricket pitch or a dog; or hurrying to lectures with an earnestness that strangely disappears when they are seated and the lecture is begun. In the stream of men there is one thin black line that is unwavering--the line of men, with white fillets of sacrifice under their chins, going to the examination Schools. This is the only place in the world where the plough is still wrought into a weapon of offence. They are under the care of a suitable, ferocious, wild man, who is one of the Old Guard of the opposition to women at Oxford; and in his bleak invitation to ladies, to proceed to their appointed rooms, lays terrible stress upon the word “women,” as if it were a term of abuse in his strange tongue. He is partly responsible for the reply of an undergraduate to an American who asked, what might be the name of the buildings which he so admired and which made him feel at home? “That,” said the undergraduate, “is the Martyrs’ Memorial.” “And who are those going in?” “They are the Martyrs.” “But I thought they were burned three hundred years ago?” “Sir,” said the undergraduate impressively, “they are martyred twice daily.” “Well, I guess Oxford is very Middle Age and all that, but I didn’t know it went so far as that”: and the humane visitor went away, talking of agitation in the _New York Herald_. Of all Oxford pastimes, that of going to the bookshop [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE DIVINITY SCHOOL The doorway through which a servant with a silver “poker” is preceding the Vice-Chancellor leads to the old Divinity School. The window at the end of the lobby--usually called the “Pig Market”--looks into Exeter College garden.]