Word: scholastica
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...differently are some things done in England than in this country. In Oxford the following quaint old custom prevails: Every St. Scholastica's day the Mayor and sixty-two townsmen, specially chosen, offer at St. Mary's Church sixty-three pence, in memory of sixty-three "innocent scholars," barbarously murdered by the townsmen in the reign of Edward Third. Compare this with the state of things existing here. Here, every year, as many "innocent scholars" meet their fate at the hands of the designers of the town,-falling unhappy victims to the charms of the young ladies of the place...