Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is left to us is to hold on, struggle on and not resign in view of the sad future...
Nevertheless this explanation of bibulousness does not validate the sad state. Oxford has no divisionals, no prohibition to spur it on; they exidently just drink on general principles, and now and then on each other it is hoped. "The Isis" goes into great detail as to the kind of drinkers that oxist at the University. There are those who drink only on Saturday night, and there are those who indulge only after long and arduous physical discipline. This last category the magazine admits quite frankly are "horrid...
Long years ago in London he saw Pinafore with Gilbert in the lead while Sullivan waved an imperious baton over the harrassed base drummer. When Gilbert sang "The Captain of the Pinafore" old men wept, gay youth cheered, and sad matrons forget how poorly the dinner had gone off. If debutantes had existed at that time they would have been heard to utter that highest praise of "Gosh that's swell" as Gilbert juggled the last high note. And once after too much port and Iolanthe the Vagabond went down Pieadilly with a poppy and a lily. Yea, verily, there...
...well, he will lay these sad thoughts by, together with his briar, and go today to hear those professors who have, like Faustus, but one short hour to live. And he will go secure in the thought that next year there will be new battalions to replace those who have gone, battalions to whom the word "vagabond" still conjures up visions of a careless wastrel. If youth but knew, and age but could...
...Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth he is forced to admit his ignorance. He never for a moment held the specious hope that this sad trifle would tone up his column. At any rate he is going to hear about Pasteur...