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And he thought much that day, this perplexed man, our grandfather with so many "greats" before the word. He had nothing to divert him even in the selection of the course toward his cave. He noted not where the sun stood, nor in what direction the tiny head-waters of the rivulets took their course, nor how the moss grew on the trees.
"I suppose Lady Thomson or the Fletchers would," returned Tims, "but you haven't wanted one. You've been quite happy at Ascham. Do try and remember. Can't you remember getting your First in Mods. and how you've been working to get one in Greats? Your brain's been right enough until to-day, old girl, and it will be again. I expect it's a case of collapse of memory from overwork.
It is, I feel sure, from his Oxford life more than from his life in Ireland that one would be able to trace the good and bad features by which he afterwards attracted the attention of the world." In 1878 Oscar won a First Class in "Greats."
He thought with disgust of the scenes of the Marmion ball, of the reckless way in which Constance had encouraged Falloden's pursuit of her, of the talk of Oxford. His work with the Greats' papers had kept him away from the Magdalen ball, and he had heard nothing of it. No doubt that foolish child had behaved in the same way there. He was thankful he had not been there to see.
"Why should he coming from the mainland?" "But Jan was born on the Islands," Matthew Henry objected; "and that will be a long time ago." "Silly! As if you could belong to the Islands by being born here! Why, to belong to them, your father and mother must have been Islanders, and your grandfathers and grandmothers, and right back into the greats and great-greats.
The pleasure and profit Oscar got from the trip were so great that he failed to return to Oxford on the date fixed. The Dons fined him forty-five pounds for the breach of discipline; but they returned the money to him in the following year when he won First Honours in "Greats" and the Newdigate prize.
It was known that he had a good chance of a 'First in Greats, if only his translations from Greek and Latin books did not pull him down. He admired the ancient authors, especially Plato, and his quick grasp of the meaning of what he read, good memory, and very remarkable powers of expression, all helped him much. Mr. In the summer Term of 1870 Holland went in for his final examination at Oxford.
A year hence, if I get a Second in Greats and I SHALL" he said, with a fierce look that entranced her "I shall have a very good chance of an assistant-mastership in a good private school. In eighteen years, if I am careful and, with you waiting for me, I SHALL be careful my savings will enable me to start a small school of my own, and to take a wife.
To this day I find myself reading the Greek and Latin authors in translation when many of my friends, who took Honours Mods, and Honours Greats, would no more think of opening books which they are supposed to have read than they would attempt to read Egyptian hieroglyphics.
"When wickets are bowled and defended, When Isis is glad with the eights, When music and sunset are blended, When Youth and the Summer are mates, When freshmen are heedless of "Greats," When note-books are scribbled with rhyme, Ah! these are the hours that one rates Sweet hours, and the fleetest of Time!" There are drags at every college gate to take college teams down to Cowley.
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