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Oxford is greatly excited by an attempt to appoint a dissentor as examiner of students in church theology, including the "39 articles." Prof. Jowett, lately attempted, according to custom, to address a meeting in Latin, but mixed his genders, broke down and fell back on English...
...writer of the article says also "that this overseeing of the clothes formed part of a recognized system is clear from the fact that they fell under the tutor's immediate charge at Oxford as well as at Cambridge. Lady Harley, in 1639, wrote to her son at Magdalen Hall, "I like the stuff for your cloths well; but the cullor of those for everyday I do not like so well; the silk chamlet I like very well, both cullor and stuff. Let your stokens be always of the same culler of your cloths, and I hope you now were...
...refereeing of Mr. Peace was perfectly satisfactory and his decisions were undisputed throughout. Though defeat fell to our lot the team deserve our heartiest congratulation on their plucky uphill work. They made a hard fight and it was no disgrace to be defeated by the team they...
...touchdown from a brilliant run by Henry, and also forcing their opponents to make a safety. Several very questionable decisions were given by the referee, which seemed rather to arise from poor attention to the game or ignorance of the rules than from partisan spirit. The burden, however, fell almost entirely on Harvard. The second half was merely a farce, still two very close decisions deprived Harvard of touchdowns. Dott, of the Michigan team did some capital playing...
...bent out of all shape, the pewterer took them back as old metal, and a new stock of "dishes, swages, and porringers" was laid in, the cost being 9 1-2d. a pound. The duty of looking after the pewter, and collecting and counting it after each meal, fell on "young Ablinson," the cook's son, who got a trifle every quarter for his pains. He could not expect much, seeing that his father only got 10s. a half-year for his salary, and the "subcoquo" a miserable 3s. 4d. [Gentleman's Magazine...