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Rh 'But can the University afford To be a slave to any kind of board? A slave?' you shuddering ask. 'Think you it can, Sir?' &apos;Not at the present moment,' is my answer. I've thought the matter o'er and o'er again, And given to it all my powers of brain; I've thought it out, and this is what I make it, (And I don't care a Tory how you take it:)

So says the oracle, and, for myself, I Must say it beats to fits the one at Delphi!
 * To save beloved Oxford from the yoke,

(For this majority's beyond a joke,) We must combine, aye! hold a caucus-meeting , Unless we want to get another beating. That they should 'bottle' us is nothing new— But shall they bottle us and caucus too?