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HEBDOMADAL COUNCIL.
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And thus the friends that we have tempted down
Oft take the two-o'clock Express for town[1].
This is our danger: this the secret foe
That aims at Oxford such a deadly blow.
What champion can we find to save the State,
To crush the plot? We darkly whisper 'Wait[2]!'
My scheme is this: remove the votes of all
The residents that are not Liberal[3]—
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[4].
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,
- ↑ A case of this kind had actually occurred on the occasion of the division just alluded to.
- ↑ Mr. Wayte, now President of Trinity, then put forward as the Liberal candidate for election to Council.
- ↑ 'You and others suggest, as the only effective remedy, that the Constituency should be reformed, by the exclusion of the non-academical elements which form a main part of the strength of this party domination.'
- ↑ 'I confess that, having included all the really academical elements in Congregation, I would go boldly on, and put an end to the legislative functions of Convocation.'
