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GOING DOWN FROM"
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"SPITEFUL LITTLE EXAMS.”,
By Franklyn Bicknell.
It is over. Tho rush and hurry and flurry of going down from Oxford is done.
And yet nobody quite knows how ho or she got away.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928.
were but a moment. f In 48 hours one would again be reading the dates on the silver, arguing about games, trying to be high- brow, or being "sconced in three pluts" for some minor sin, like swearing when the savoury is too hot.
Odd Jobs and Beer.
Such reflections are tinged with melancholy. But the desire to brood over the future must be restrained, for there is still so To begin with, there are college much to be done. Black coffee In "collections, spiteful-little-exams. the Common Room and notes that held the last day to see if any work must be written, trying to make has been done during the term. the best of engagements forgotten, Of course, a lot has been done, and tailors who won't be. And Though Oxford's only faithful when tho' notes have been taken by fashion is to affect perpetual idle the messenger, one deviates from the narrow path of odd jobs "just But there always are holes in for moment." "I've such a lot of one'a knowledge, so binck coffee beef, and it will be flat by next does its beat to help eram a tornu's term." Ono "just" looks into revision into the small hours of the Jones's roomy and there finds morning. Under graduettes work Brown, who is the president next on cocoa; an incredible drink to sip term. of the college over a Greek lexicon or Stubb's Charters.
nery.
dobating society; and thord is argument about mixed debates with Somer- ville or St. Hugh's,
must
And onco "collections" are over there remains the impossible pro- And so the night fades into blem of packing. Yet even this is morning, with one's clothes half nothing to the social complications. packed, one's accounts half correct, So-und-so has not been seen all the one's train half settled. term, such-and-such a girl invited One goes to say good-bye to one's one to a dance and one never said tutor and the head of the college. thank you. Have 'em all to a meal! The latter forgets who one is, the The subtle blending of well-former has not had time to correct chosen psychologies in a small the "collections" of the day before, dinner vanishes. Instead, every-but assumes they must be bad, one is feverishly invited together and says 20,
the
Suddenly one feels une few remaining meals, whether they be "asthete" or catch sotne train. The lodge rings "hearty," Balliol or B.N.C
up a taxi, the scout says he will post two pairs of trousers and a waistcoat, one tips anyone one sees, During the last few days parties fights through a crowd of men who grow al enormous speeds. "You know the train is not going yet, Bave six lunching with you? Well, and of undergradueties who are go have 1. Let's all go together to sure it is, and then, with three com- the George." Such is the simple panious, feet on the cushions, one problem of men.
carries up to London or down to Penzance, smoking and talking a whole chunk of Oxford atmosphere
to
Last-Hour Entertaining.
Undergraduettes need chaperons, a nicely-laid-out tea, other men to talk to. And who in his heart of Hearts is certain his friends won't be bored by the ladies of his choice,
"I was in the buffet at the Cen- trat Station, Folkstone," writes a
or, worse still, be too intriguet render of that town, to the
It is a trying world when women Morning Post "talking about old complicate Oxford!-
days to a friend. I chanced to And when work and last-hour mention the honesty of Smith's entertaining and packing are over bookstall boys, and related what there is the question of money or happened to me in 1893 or 1894. no money-to be pondered. One "I was in the habit of golug to man, finding himself without the London frequently for the day, necessary cash with which to go and would very often buy at the down, took a taxi to London, con-Charing Cross bookstall a book, fident his family would pay on his the pages of which the boy cut arrival. Others grimly wrestle for mo. One day the boy came to with intractable pass-books and me with a sovereign and told me unfilled-in counterfoils. All feel I had left it on the bookstall the bankrupt, which accounts for the last time I was there. college Halls the last night. For "My friend was not quite certain one does not pay for one's food in if he could believe me, and his college until next term, and by next doubt must have shown in his term so many things may have face, for a man sitting opposite to happened.
us at our tablo broke in with:
"I can vouch for that because I was the bookstall boy" This he
So one dines and orders a pint of beer in a silver mug, given "In
sum Nocloyum,” by some deed proved by telling me what I had cleric in 1748, and one starės at given him as a reward. He added the dons and the "high table" and that he was now in the advertise- thinks of next term as if the vac.ment department of his firm.”-
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