Word: downes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There are one or two customs of unique character retained at Oxford during Christmastide. At Magdalen College a quaint and remarkable entertainment is given on Christmas Eve. The company assemble in the college hall about nine o'clock in the evening, and the choir at once proceed to sing part...
According to the News, "Bangers," are disappearing quite rapidly from the stores down street. Perhaps a new stock will be necessary.
Eighty dollars must be raised before Monday next, or the society will that day cease to do business. There are three sources from which the money may come; from men who have not yet joined the society, from old members who have as yet subscribed nothing to the voluntary fund...
As to the old members who have not already subscribed, nothing, probably, can be expected from them, except from those who have omitted to subscribe through negligence. Those who have intentionally given nothing have estimated, it is likely, the benefit which the society will be to them, and will not...
If, as our recent correspondent, Mr. Webb, would have us assume, the Washington club blackballed Messrs. Greener and Terrell for other reasons than their color, the situation of the club at present is peculiarly unfortunate. Those reasons are evidently of such a nature that the club is unwilling to make...