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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...production which has given just offence to so many men, and was so palpably vulgar. If "Rac" wished to show how far he was removed from those at whom he aims his sarcasm, he has succeeded, for few readers of his article would accuse him of being a member of any literary set, even of a sham...
...scouted by all intelligent students. He merely uses his nominal connection with the College as a stalking-horse to conceal the true character of this new enterprise, which is simply a financial speculation got up by Mr. Moses King for his own sole benefit. The array of articles from members of the Faculty which he has obtained for his first number shows that he has been very successful, for the present at least, in using them as a cat's paw to pull his chestnuts out of the fire; but we hope and believe that his contributors will be undeceived...
Granting that there is a need for such a journal as he seeks to establish, is not the editor, from a literary point of view, wholly unfit for his position? He is understood to have the support and approbation of the President and Faculty, yet could even its youngest member read the pompous prospectus without blushing for his representative...
...member of the University will be allowed to use these machines except during the practice time of a crew. Dr. Sargent is also endeavoring to adapt a new rowing-machine, and if he is successful, a number of them will be added to those intended for the use of the crews...
...posted by the club, while those placed in the box for the town are delivered once an hour, - a great convenience where distances are so great as between Christ Church and Keble, for instance. On a table at the end of the room is a "complaint-book," in which members may write any complaint or any suggestion for the management of the club, to which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect...