Word: helmes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College reminds us of Sir Walter Raleigh, Bishop Butler, Thomas Arnold and John H. Newman. Corpus Christi once had Coleridge for a pupil, and from University College the ethereal Shelly was expelled. John Wickliff was a fellow of Merton College in 1364, and Frederic W. Robertson and the saintly Helm, the author of the hymn, "From Greenlands lacy Mountains," were students of Brasenose College. And so on I might go, but the list of great names is almost endless. Every building is historic, and every walk has traditions of those whose names the world will...
...Grecians who stood at the helm and the one who provided the money...
...soda on board, as these are capital remedies for sea-sickness, and will come in very well, no doubt. If two of your friends happen to get together and talk in an undertone about college matters, though you hear all they say, you must be apparently only minding the helm. A week's sailing in this wise, with no stint in the beverages named above, will infallibly bring you into the "second ten," and as then you will be a made man, and I only intended to give you advice for Freshman year, I will close for the present...