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...brilliant a success at Cambridge as Keble has been at Oxford. Only sixty students can be accommodated so far, as the L38,000 originally subscribed did not suffice to build more than the first block. Selwyn is the first college added to the university during the present century...
...rooms of the St. Paul's Society have just been refitted, and present a very tasteful appearance. The first meeting of the year occurred on Wednesday evening, Rev. Percy Browne delivering the first of three brief addresses on "The Limitations of Doubt...
...hoped that '83 will yet be able to put a creditable crew on the river, but at present the prospect seems, to say the least, doubtful. The old stroke, who has served the class so faithfully in three races, will be unable to row this year on account of ill health, and his loss is a serious calamity to the crew. In addition to this, several other men who have sat in the boat in previous years refuse to row again for reasons best known to themselves; and altogether the outlook is decidedly dark. Under these circumstances...
...Senior class crew, after several meetings, finds no captain of its choice who is willing, under the circumstances, to take the office. Although the crew suffer greatly in the loss of stroke oarsman, the real difficulty at present lies in the unwillingness of several members to row again this year. The entire matter has been wisely referred to a meeting of the whole class. A point arises here which has before been urged in these columns, - the advisability of setting the day for the class races a week earlier than heretofore. The reasons for such a change are stronger than...
WHILE we are on the subject of fire-escapes we would like to object once more to the use of Appleton Chapel as a refrigerator by the Dining Association. We do not believe the Chapel was endowed for that purpose; and, besides the unwarranted desecration, the present temperature of our devotions is apt to lend a halo of attractiveness to the future abode of the non-elect which defeats the ostensible purpose of the religious exercises...