21 DECEMBER 1872, Page 15

OXFORD, DECEMBER ilvu, 1872.

FULL many a deed of petty bigotry,

Oxford! unthinking men have wrought in thee,—

Gladstone rejected,—Jowett of his fee For years deprived on charge of heresy And last, a turbulent, fanatic band, Fearful to gaze upon the face of Truth, Marshalled their forces, hoping to withstand

Free-utterance, "base corrupter of our youth; "

But spite of Goulburn's flowery rhetoric And Burgon's wit, the friends of liberty Sped to defeat the paltry-minded trick, Resolved their sons and brothers should be free, And ye should hear, 0 colleges and halls Brave Stanley's voice in old St. Mary's walls.

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