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Rh OMEONE has said that during the (so-called!) Summer Term, we in Oxford cannot be expected to do any work, because our attention is exclusively claimed by "Eights and cousins;" when, therefore, in addition to these distractions, we have the further excitement of a Royal visit, surely a college tutor's heart must be of adamant if he look not with lenient eye on lectures cut and essays unwritten! Yet experience tells us that even now the "gens ferrea" has not entirely left our earth.