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The Eagle 1884 (Easter) Subscribers, commencing with No. 66. /fo. l' �"If/, Acton, E. H. Drysdale, J. H: Kynaston, ·W. H. Stanwell, H. B. Ainger, ·F. E. Eady,·W. H. Lewis, H. S. Stevens, S. 'V. l3ain, D. Fisher, E. Lord, C. D. Soares. E. J. !lennett, H. M. Ftancis, F. H. Marshall, F. C ,B.A. Spmguc, J. S . Blain" W. Frost, O. C. McLeod. G. K. Town, \V. E. Brady, H. A. Fuller, H. H. !l1illter. F. Vaugh an, P. tChaudhuri, A. Gossage, W. W. Monckton, H. H. 'Yilliams, A.. H. Chadwick, A. Hnrnett, F. R. MelIur. F. Wilson , H. Clarke, E. T. Jolly, L. Nabi Ullah. S. M. Woodward, W. H. Clive,F.B. Jones, H. R. RobertB, R Roby, A. G. t!rqr Cfraglr. Subscribers commencing with No. 69. Ayles, H. H. B. Darlington, T. Kirby, T. H. Roberts, A. C. Barlow, H. T. E. Dyer. C. M. Large, R. R03eveare, \V. N. l3enoy, J. Eardlf.'Y, ·W. Leon, J. A. �harm!LIl, A. n. Botterill, F. W. Easterby, W. Macklem, T. C. S. !-oheppard, C. P. �ptctal �umbtr. Bradley, H. W. Elsee, H. J. May, J. P. Sh ore, L. E. l3ranscombe, H. S. Fisher, L. Monis, A. L. Slater, It. Ca(lie, H. S. Gill, H. S. , I Nichols, J. H. Stradling, ·W. E. L. ,Sjunr, 1884. Chilc ott , E. W. -Goulding, E. A. Nurse, H. H. Stonham, E. Clarke, J. :- . Harper, W. N. Orgill, W. L. Stroud, H. Clilton, A. H. -Hill, H. E. Paton, J. L. A. Tooth, P. E. Cousins, J. R. Hill, H. H. L. Peck, T. W. 'Yard, H. Craggs, E. H. Hoyle, J. J. Phillips, R. W. Wills, H. T. Curtis, T. W. K. Hughes, R. Picken, \V. S. Walker, D. King, J. G. -Ray nor, A. G. S. 'Warner, G. F. Subscribers, commencing with No. 72 (First List). Atherton, E. E. Chaplin, T. H. A. Halkett, J. G. H. Langham, E. N. Ashburner, T. Clark, A. J. Hamilton, A. S. Leakll., F. A. E. Barnes, J. s. CJay, I. W. How8rth, W. JIlewburn Levicn,J.J. Barnett, IT. J. Da"ies, D. HnwelJ, T. F. Parker, T. H. Barraclough. N. C. Diaz Yelez, C. rlel'ring, J. Roherts, II. S. Beaumont, J. A. Rllerbeck , Eo M. HeldeJ, C. W. Sainsb ury, A. J. Bradford, H. EV8ns, F. P. lIill,F. W. Stuart. E. J. Brereton, C. S. H. Ewillg, A. G. C. "Jilgger, J. E. Tatltam, '1'. B. Butterworth, J. H. FJetc'her, W. C. Jc·jferis, W. H. Wolf=ndale, T. A. ijlrfntel:J for �ubsctibers on Ill. The Subscription for t4e current year is fixed at 4S. 6d.; it includes Nos. 72, 73 and 74, Subscribers are requested to pay their Subscriptions to Mr. E. J oh�sotl, Bookseller, Trinity Street. The Editors Iwould be glad if Subscribers could inform them of any of their friends who are anxious to take in the Magazine. ) Subscribers are requested to leave their addresses with 1\1r. J ohnson, and to give notice of any change; and also of any corrections in the printed list of Subscribers. (!!:nmbtilJge : The Secretaries of 'College Societies are requested to send in their notices for the Chronicle before the end of each Term. mlt. jQ!letcalfe &- .;eon, �t!nterll, �rlntt!1 Jetted. Contributions for the next number should be sent in at an early date to 1884. one of the Editors (Mr: Mullinger, J. R. Tanner, E. A. Goulding, A. G.. ::So Raynor, -------------------- J. E. Jagger, H. K Hill). --- N.B.-Contributors of anonymous articles or letters will please send their --�I names to one 01 the Editors who need not communicate it further. 128 The Lib1·ary. Addz'Hons. II., Ill., Analecta Sacra. Edited by J. B. C. Pitra. Tom. and rv. Codex Theodosianus et Novellre. Edited by Gustavus Haenel. 4to. Bonn, 1842• CollegeEx.amination Papers, r880-r883. Concordance to Comedies and Fragments of Aristophanes. By H. Dunbar. 4to. Oxford, r883. Concordance to Homer's Odyssey and Hymns. By H. Dnnbar, 4to. Oxford, r880. " REX AVIUM REDIVIVUS." Concordance to Milton's Poetical Works. By C. D. Cleveland, LL.D. 8vo. London, r867. Concordance to Pope's Works. ByE. Abbott. 8vo. London, r875. A REPORT was by enemies recently spread, Demosthenis Orationes. Ex. recens. G. Dindorfii. 3 Vols. (Teubner Text). That the Johnian Eagle was dying or dead; (New English) Dictionary. Edited by Dr. J. A. H. Murray. Part I. fol. And the doctors, called in to examine his state, Oxford, r884. English Reprints. Edited by Edwarcl Arber. 11 Vols. (bound). Shook their heads, and went off sadly sighing ' too late.' English Scholar's Library. Edited by Edward Arber. 2 Vols. (bound). Gardiner's History of England. Vols. VII. and VIII.. 8vo. London r884. And there all alone in the wilderness lying, TheEpinal Glossary. Edited by Henry Sweet. fol. London, r883 . The Eagle seemed dead, or decidedly dying; Ninth Report of Historical Manuscripts Commission. Part I. (Report and Appendix). He was plucked of his plumes to the very last particle, Institutionen (Cursus der). By G. F. Puchta. 2 Vols., 8vo. Leipzig, r875. And his beak pecked around him in vain for am article. Journal of Philology, Vol. XII. Notes a.nd Queries. July to December, r883. But the bird was not dead, if the truth must be told, Riimische Rechtsgeschichte. By A. F. Rudorff. 2 vols., 8vo. Leipzig, [857. But only half-starved, disappointed, and old; The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Vol. VI., (1455-r460). Edited by George Burnett. 4to. Edinburgh, 1883. And the fire burning bright in his aquiline eye Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, Vol. V., (1592-1599). Edited by Showed he hadn't the slightest intention to die. David Masson, LL.D. 4to. Edinburgh, 1882. General Index to Journal of the Statistical Society, (1838-r872), 3 Vols There passed by a Levite-a Don I should say­ 8vo. London, r853, r863, and 1874. Thomas SagaErkibyskups. Vol. H., (Life of Archbishop Thomas-a-Becket in But he carefully passed t'other side of the way, Icelandic, with English Translations &c. Edited by Dr. E. Magnusson). And observed to the bird with a dignified frown­ Rolls series, 8vo. London, 1883. "I really must ask you to put on your gown." Troja. By Dr. Henry Schliemann. 8vo. London, r884. WyclifPs Polemical Works in Latin, Vols. !. and II. Edited by Rudolph Came a student, exhaling tobacco's light cloud; Buddensieg. Wyclif Society, 8vo. London, 1883. His dress and his voice and his manners were loud, As he cried-" Poor old fenow, I pity your luck; Like me, you, I fear, are the victim of pluck." There passed a Philosopher full of new schemes, Utopian plans, philanthropical dreams, And remarked-" My poor bird, you seem weary and undone, Let me beg you to read 'the cry bitter of London.''' VOL. XIII. s Redivivus." 131 130 " Rex Avium Redivivus." "Rex Avzt.tm athletics, boat-races, And one remarked tkt's, and another one tltat, vVhen you fill him with football, faces. And they all knew their lesson remarkably' pat'; Obituaries, concerts,-the bird makes wry news: But however they differed, on. this all agreed­ Giv,e a summary short of the best College refuse. Not one of them helped the poor bird in his need. More than this the old bird, if he could, would of poetry take.....: One begged him to 'take the blue ribbon' ; another, Four-fifths of good prose, one make; Who endeavoured in vain his fierce anger to smother, Of these a light pudding digestible of sense, Cried aloud, as a'muffler' he wrapped round his Add a little philosophy, plenty dispense. throat- And once every Term the prescription "The poor bird is dying for want of a vote." And the bird every year will look younger and stronger, and tail will grow longer; One said the new statutes had caused all his pains, And his btll (absit omen) scandal be spread- Another declared he'd been poisoned by dFains, And never again shall the dying or dead. And another with unctuous energy vowed- That the Johnian Eagle is " If you wish him to live he must be dis-endowed." ARCULUS. Last of all there came by a Samaritan good, 21 May, 1884. Who saw what was wanted-kind treatment and food; So he gave him good mutton, and gave him good beef, And the Eagle showed evident signs of relief. For 'the quills re-appeared on his featherless frame, And his eye was lit up with ineffable flame;' Re expanded his wings and unfolded his tail, Like a ship when she catches the favouring gale. Now who wa� this friemd so discFeet and kind-hearted? Whence came he? and wherefore? and whither departed? Was he lawyer, physician, philosopher, poet? This I really won't tell, for I really don't know it. But a word of advice I would willingly give If you wish the old J ohnian Eagle to live; You must d0 something more than subscribe for and read him, Remember your bird is but mortal, and leed ht·m. Examinati011s-A Protest. 133 that we have to add to our definition of the "feather­ less biped" an item describing Man as 'the animal that goes in for examinations.' Indeed this would be no distinction from the lower creation, as our cattle- and poultry -shows sufficiently testify: our very pigs are entered for competitive examinations in cor­ EXAMINATIONS-A PROTEST. pulence, and feathered geese, no less than their human antitypes, are subjected to the painful and 'HE topic of examinations seems to be one, in ignominious process of "plucking." University circles at least, rich in points of I wish, however, to confine my remarks to ex­ interest, but amidst much recent discussion aminations at Cambridge, and no one will deny I have listened in vain for any voice bold enough that they afford an ample field for consideration.
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