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...Oxford the system of formal espionage by proctors over students in almost all their actions is still rigidly enforced. Dire are the consequences for the unluckly "undergrad." who is caught by these ever-watchful spies dressed in aught but traditional gown and mortar-board. Proctors, it is said, however, are easily avoided by the wary. It is less easy to avoid the "bull-dogs," as the body-servants of the proctors are called. But, says the London Graphic, "It has been darkly hinted that 'bull-dogs' are corruptible by gold, and even silver." But more curious than either proctors...
...this world was made for mon. He rules over all the birds and the beasts and his wife. Women are not the equals of men, for they can't keep secrets. Go to your 'sacred student,'" says John, "and tell him you have killed a mon, and nobody will ever know it; tell it to a woman, and it will be known in 'foive days...
...Wance," when John was a boy in Ireland, some eddicated folks came to the country and told them all about the steam-cars, and drew a "presen'tion" of them. But he didn't ever believe them until he went to "Clarney," and saw with his own eyes the wonders related. So people ought to believe a great many things they never see. "Why, if I should go to Oirland, and tell them all about class-day here, sorr, they would niver believe...
...Walker's lecture this evening upon "American Manufactures and Agriculture" is upon a subject important to every one. Col. Walker has had the control of the census of 1880, which has been the most complete and comprehensive census ever taken of this country, and perhaps of any country in the world. He will probably present some facts and figures which have not yet appeared in the regular report. The lecture will be of especial interest to students of political economy...
...necessary is that you give place to the improper as well as to the proper. Take your women for instance; you write your plays as if there was no such thing on earth as a wicked woman, or that if there is, neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that...