25 JUNE 1904, page 27

I T Used To Be The Custom At Some Oxford Colleges—possibly

it is the custom still—to enforce a certain standard of behaviour at dinner in Hall by a system of " sconcing," or fining the offender a fixed amount of beer, to be drunk by......

T He Present War In The East Is Probably The Only

instance of a great campaign between civilised nations in which one of the combatants has relied almost entirely on man- power, instead of horse-power, for transport, the whole......