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...Oxford of to-day is by no means what it was when Thomas Hughes saw it. The purse-proud regime has been reduced, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose caste entirely among his fellows; but this is a very hard statement to swallow. If true, things have vastly improved in England over what they...
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...seems that although the Yale men undertook to pay the expenses of advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable that they feel aggrieved...
...principal books relating to Michelangelo's Life and Works, by Professor Norton. In this variety of subjects, every intelligent student must be able to find one at least which will be useful to him, and as the price of the Bulletin is about that of a glass of beer, few need deprive themselves of it from motives of economy. We hope, therefore, that its popularity will be equal to its deserts...
...PEWTER beer-mugs with glass bottoms are the prizes offered by the H. A. A. There will be no second prizes...