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Rh Let each that wears a beard, and each that shaves, Join in the cry 'We never will be slaves!' "But can the University afford To be a slave to any kind of board? A slave?" you shuddering ask. "Think you it can, Sir?" "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,)