Word: orful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The anniversary banquet was held in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, and so great was the number of guests that special trains were run from London for their accommodation. Lord Selborne, Lord High Chancellor, presided, and among the company, which comprised many of England's most distinguished men, were the Bishop...
It would be considered a ridiculous proposition if any one should urge upon the students here to try to take possession of the caucuses in Cambridge, and swamp the regular politicians of the First Ward, and yet it is not merely possible, but quite likely, that such an attempt would...
That those who manage our State and national affairs are not altogether perfect, and that something is lacking in our political life, is evident, and so many a one, desiring to help in amending it, calls upon the class he considers the best, be it scholars, gentlemen, or women, to...
HAVE you ever read essays of Elia, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, or Vanity Fair? Then I am sure of your interest in a few words about those two old schools, Christ Hospital and Gray Friars, from whose walls have gone out, not only Charles Lamb, Coleridge, and Thackeray, but...
Bidding a truce to dates, Christ Hospital was founded three hundred years ago by the boy-king Edward VI., in a large monastery whose inmates had been driven out in the hostile reign of bluff King Hal. Starting with 350 scholars, it has now 1200; but it is not a...