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...unexceptional caligraphy extant, inviting her to a matinee. She revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal. On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the contents of his carbine into his abdomen. The debris was removed by the coroner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Literary Curiosity. | 10/8/1885 | See Source »

...choir commence singing Christmas carols, until the great bell in the tower booms out the hour of twelve, when Pergolesi's "Gloria in Excelsis" is sung, and the Vice-President bids you a Merry Christmas. The whole scene is striking and unique, and well worthy of its academic surroundings. Queen's College, even more than Magdalen, confers benefit on the public, by the retention of old customs. The large number that flock to the Hall every Christmas Day, to see the Boars head, attest the popularity of that timehonored dish, and the ceremony therewith. In fact, it frequently happens that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmastide at Oxford. | 2/14/1885 | See Source »

...written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate the true nature of the difference. The real and essential difference is that in Constitutions of the flrst kind all laws are of equal validity. The Queen, Lords and Commons, if they agreed, might legally effect the most radical changes in our constitution. In political systems of the other type, the law of the Constitution is exalted above the ordinary legislature, which can, by itself, effect no change in it whatever ; it is law of a different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Prof. Bryce on "Constitutions, Flexible and Rigid." | 2/4/1885 | See Source »

...days of good King Karlos and his Queen, Alma Mater, it came to pass that there journeyed to the realms of this much loved King a band of youths who, from their number, were called the nine. And from these, it is said, in after ages came the nine muses. Now the nine found great favor in the eyes of all the people and their concerts, which were often called balls, were widely attended. Rich and poor, high and low, gathered upon the fields on warm sunny afternoons after four o'clock, (for at this hour the shops were closed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Old Document. | 1/30/1885 | See Source »

...legal college, and is more celebrated for its gardens than its buildings. While the partisans of the red and the white roses, or rather of Lancaster and York, were busily engaged in the conflict that eventually put Lancaster upon the throne, they did not forget to found Queen's College as a monument for future generations. E Asmus was a fellow of this college. A peculiar bridge, the mathematical bridge, leads the writer at Queens College to the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Colleges of Cambridge. | 1/22/1885 | See Source »

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