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...enjoyment of the pleasures which the present offers for our delectation, be oblivious of preparations for the unknown and boundless future. The rise of Sever, the coming of celestial John, the prospective conversion of our late rendezvous into ablutionary liquid, the completion of this grand palaestra, - all these events remind us that this too, too solid flesh* must die, decay, and pass into nothingness...
...rowed in intercollegiate races up to 1870, 10 were killed in the war, and 2 died of diseases contracted in the service. Of the remaining 101, 1 died of Bright's disease, 5 of consumption, 1 of neuralgia, 1 by suicide, 2 by accident, and 1 from an unknown cause. Of the 87 who were living two years ago, 67 reported themselves in good health, and from the rest no definite answer could be obtained...
...attributed to any exposure or over-exertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge. The general healthiness of the University dormitories is remarkable. There has been no epidemic therein of fever, diphtheria, dysentery, or any zymotic disease for many years, and malaria (except in imported cases) is unknown...
...Oxford is constantly changing. Most of us derive our ideas on this subject from reading "Tom Brown"; but the Oxford of to-day is by no means what it was when Thomas Hughes saw it. The purse-proud regime has been reduced, the tandem-driving lords and snobs are unknown. The "Town and Gown" row is a thing of the past, so is that unappeasable thirst for beer by which the youth of that time seemed to have been impelled. The writer states that a student who should anywhere be seen tipsy would lose caste entirely among his fellows...
...chilled by the breath of the unknown guest...