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Concerning the disposal of Lord Ashburnham's famous collection of manuscripts now offered for sale, the Oxford Magazine thinks that "the subject is one on which Oxford ought to have an opinion and to express it. Surely it would be misplaced parsimony to allow such a mine of wealth for the scholar and antiquary to pass into the hands of Germany or America...
...confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that...
...Oxford man, says Robert Laird Collier, is known in society by his drawl. The present writer has several young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these...
Michael Kavanagh, the man who drove the car in which the assassins of Lord Cavendish and Secretary Burke escaped, has turned informer, and in giving a detailed account of the murder Saturday, positively identified two of the accused...
...eight men recently arrested in Dublin charged with the murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Under-Secretary Burke were arraigned on Saturday and several of the accused were positively identified as the assassins of the murdered...