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 * 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, Concilium Hebdomadale must, Consumed and conquered, be consigned to dust !
 * And here I must relate a little fable

I heard last Saturday at our high table:—