The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments

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Godley Alfred Denis. The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments

M. T. CICERONIS DE LEGE BODLEIANA ORATIO

THE EIGHTS IN FICTION

I. Old Style

II. New or Kodak Style (From the French)

THUCYDIDES ON THE INFLUENZA

HERODOTUS ON HORSEBACK

TAC. HIST., BK. VI

THE JOURNALISTIC TOUCH1

THE JOURNALISTIC TOUCH

PHILOGEORGOS, OR CONCERNING BRIBERY

PHILELEUTHEROS; OR, CONCERNING THE PEOPLE’S WILL

THE TUTOR’S EXPEDIENT

THE END AND OBJECT —

THE TORTURED TUTOR: A DIALOGUE OF THE DEAD

THE DIFFICULTIES OF MR. BULL2

THE NATION IN ARMS

THE INCUBUS

THE WORKING MAN

CONCERNING A MILLENNIUM

FORECAST

PAGEANTS

RULES FOR FICTION

ART AND LETTERS

THE NOVEL

FRAGMENT OF A JARGONIAD

THE PUPILS’ POINT OF VIEW

HINTS FOR THE TRANSACTION OF PUBLIC BUSINESS

EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY

UNIVERSITY COMMISSIONS

DIPLOMAS IN ARCHITECTURE AT CAMBRIDGE

ICHABOD: A MONODY

THE PANACEA

THE HEROIC AGE

MAKERS OF HISTORY

ALMA MATER FILIO

IN MEMORIAM EXAMINATORIS CUIUSDAM

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I. Not concerning a thing of no moment, O Conscript Fathers, you are now called upon to decide: whether to one man by the counsel and advice of Curators it is to be permitted that he should take away from you the power of placing in the Proscholium the instruments of celerity, the assistances of (your) feet, the machines appointed by a certain natural providence for the performance of your duties: whether, in which place our ancestors sold pigs with the greatest consent and indeed applause of the Roman people, from that (place) bicycles are to be ejected by one guardian of books. O singular impudence of the man! For be unwilling, Conscript Fathers, be unwilling to believe that in this pretence of consulting for (the interests of) a public building something more is not also being aimed at and sought to be obtained: in such a way (lit. so) he attacks bicycles that in reality he endeavours to oppress the liberty of each one of you: that by this example and as it were by the thin end of a certain wedge he may lay the foundation of a royal power over all these things, which I (as) consul preserved. Concerning which matter I could say much, if time allowed me: now behold and examine the miserable condition of those whom a man devoid of constancy and gravity overturns from (their) fortunes.

II. What! shall the Masters of Arts, what! shall the Doctors, what! shall the Proctors themselves (than which kind of men nothing can exist more holy, nothing more upright, nothing more auspiciously established) be compelled to come on foot that they may consult those most sacred volumes in which the Roman people have wished that all learning should be included? The Hypobibliothecarii, what men! what citizens! will, I believe, walk, especially considering that it is to be contended by them against the lengthiness of a journey: and then, if, as (usually) happens, some sudden tempest should arise, they must suffer (their) bicycles lacking shelter to be most miserably corrupted by rain. It has been handed down to memory, Conscript Fathers, that Caius Duilius was permitted by the republic, which he had saved by (his) incredible fortitude, to be borne by an elephant whenever he had been invited to a dinner. Therefore, did he use a most luxurious quadruped that he might by so much the more quickly arrive at a banquet: shall we, who desire to hasten not for the sake of lust and the belly, but for the sake of this learning and books, be forbidden to employ bicycles? I pray and entreat you, Conscript Fathers, do not allow this disgrace to be branded upon the heart itself and entrails of the commonwealth.

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His Majesty and the Greek Fleet sailed to-day from Epidaurus, amid scenes of great enthusiasm. Her Majesty the Queen and His Excellency Count Aegisthus were both visibly affected. Mycenae is daily paraded by crowds shouting, “To Ilion!”

The Fleet is at Aulis, waiting until the process of raising the wind shall have been concluded. Meantime, the services of the notorious Klepht Achilles have been engaged. This popular enlistment creates great enthusiasm.

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