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Rh And thus the friends that we have tempted down Oft take the two-o'clock Express for town.
 * This is our danger: this the secret foe

That aims at Oxford such a deadly blow. What champion can we find to save the State, To crush the plot? We darkly whisper 'Wait !'
 * My scheme is this: remove the votes of all

The residents that are not Liberal — Leave the young Tutors uncontrolled and free, And Oxford then shall see—what it shall see. What next? Why then, I say, let Convocation Be shorn of all her powers of legislation. But why stop there? Let us go boldly on— Sweep everything beginning with a 'Con' Into oblivion! Convocation first, Conservatism next, and, last and worst,