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...recent sale of the Duke of Wellington's Library is declared to be the greatest book sale on record. It continued for over a month, and the total receipts were some...
...Thomas Cranmer was confined, and there I stand on the very spot where Latimer and Ridley were burned. I enter the noble quadrangle of Christ Church, and remember that it was founded by Cardinal Wolsey, and that John Locke, Ben Johnson, Sir Philip Sydney, William Penn, the Duke of Wellington and William E. Gladstone have been among its students. Oriel 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...
...himself for the success of his side, is one of the chief arguments in favor of foot ball. Any man who has learned to display determination on the foot ball field, is very certain to show it in any work of life be may afterward enter. The Duke of Wellington declared that all his great victories had been decided long before on the foot ball fields of England. Moreover, a few bruises cannot offset the advantages of that training whose great aim is to develope coolness of head and promptness of decision...
...directions of Col. Wellington, the chief marshal of the parade tonight, each division is designated by name of its division commander. The position of the division in line will not be made known until just before the procession starts. This is done so that there may be no dissatisfaction beforehand about precedence. It is probable, however, that Col. Bancroft's division will come about in the middle of the procession...
Many conjectures as to the probable route of the torchlight parade are made. The first stories, that it would be 10 or 12 miles long, are now discredited, as Colonel Wellington is known to favor short marches for inexperienced...