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...habit as that of hurrying out of chapel was ever contracted. It is irreverent, to say the least, not to wait in perfect order and decorum until the prayer is entirely finished; such childish lack of courtesy as is frequently displayed in chapel gives any stranger who may happen to be present an unfavorable impression of the good breeding of the students. We trust that there will be no further cause of complaint on this score; for, whatever be our opinions as to the advisability of compulsory attendance at prayers, every sensible person will see the necessity of good order...
...active membership is consequently very large, - twelve hundred or more, - about one-half of the undergraduates; it is a club for the whole University, open to men who have just matriculated as well as to those who have been up for several years, and to former members who happen to be in Oxford; while strangers may be "put down" for a month by any undergraduate or graduate member...
...October 13, 1877, came very near being rowed a few days thereafter; and, in general, it seems far easier to hold together an existing class six, already flushed with victory, than to organize de now a college eight or even four. Particular classes in different colleges may sometimes happen to be approximately equal in size, even when there is great disparity in that respect between the colleges themselves. Furthermore, an oarsman may fairly be presumed to have less hesitancy in trying his luck when he feels that the odium of possible defeat will attach to the name of his class...
...half-year's work. The weeks prove anything but a vacation to most of us, and those favored ones who gain a little leisure towards the close of the examinations are envied by the less fortunate. More than this, two examinations in one day, or, as it must sometimes happen, three or four examinations in two days, are more than a student can pass with credit or even justice to himself. One hour of exhausting writing would, indeed, be avoided in each examination, but all the other work which an examination brings would remain substantially undiminished. We hope that these...
Somehow none of the things that happen to bad students in the books happened to this George. He was off on a spree for a week, and when he got back and handed in his certificate that he had been away visiting a sick relative, the shrewd old secretary did n't catch him by asking him if he had had a pleasant trip on the boat. O no! George was well aware that steamboats did not run through...