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...much to keep alive an intelligent interest in matters that every gentleman must, sooner or later, be acquainted with. There, it is "the thing" to think and to talk about them, and to take part in the Union debates. Here, it is not; and this lies at the root of the matter. Until men who are prominent in college take the lead, as once they did, in giving a reasonable amount of attention to matters of general interest in the world, we shall have no club like the Oxford Union, and it will be, as now, "the thing" to think...