Jordan College was the gra and richest of all the colleges in Oxford. It robably the largest, too, though no one knew for certain. The buildings, which were grouped around three irregular quadrangles, dated from every period from the early Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth tury. It had never been planned; it had grown piecemeal, with past and present overlapping at every spot, and the final effect was one of jumbled and squalid grandeur. Some part was always about to fall down, and for five geions the same family, the Parslows, had been employed full time by the College as masons and scaffolders.
The present Mr. Parslow was teag his son the craft; the two of them and their three workmen would scramble like industrious termites over the scaffolding theyd erected at the er of the library, or over the roof of the chapel, and haul up bright new blocks of stone or rolls of shiny lead or balks of timber.
The College owned farms aes all land. It was said that ……（内容加载失败！）
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