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30 Corpus 2
31 Lady Margaret 4
32 Christ's 2
33 Trinity Hall 3
34 2nd Trinity 3
35 1st Trinity 5
36 Caius 3
37 Sidney 2

38 Corpus 2
39 Emmanuel 3

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40 Lady Margaret 5

Friday, May 16th. Third Division.

40 Emmanuel 3

41 1st Trinity 6 42 Queens' 2

43 Jesus 2

44 Peterhouse 2

45 Christ's 3

46 Lady Margaret 6

47 Trinity Hall 4

48 Caius 4*
49 Pembroke 2
50 3rd Trinity 3

*Missed race.

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IT is the Christmas time; and here at College we maintain all the good old customs that were wont to bring together men whom feuds and selfish occupations had dissevered throughout the year.

It is well for us that Christmas comes in winter, when our fellow-labourers have most need of help and cheerful greetings. There are days in summer when we feel so happy in the general joy and beauty of the earth, that we retain no evil feeling against rivals and persecutors; but at best it is only passive toleration, for even any merry kindness towards them has a spice of mischief in it, because we see their ridiculous impotence to wound us further while the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the streams are cajoling us to come and dive into cool baths among the willow roots, and the swallows are flitting with all sorts of vagabond suggestions. No, in summer we are not charitably disposed on the whole; we possess merely a speculative benevolence; we wish everybody to be well off, in health, wealth, and contentment, as in that case we need not be teased by them, and therefore can indulge ourselves unrestrainedly. Nor do I think that we are distinguished as philanthropists in autumn; for at that season memory is busy preaching sermons from the withered

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