Miscellaneous Extracts.
TIIE SINFUL UNDERGRADUATE
The '• Sinful Undergraduate " forms tbe subject of an article by Mark Pembcrton in the Windsor Magazine. Referring to the attendance at chapel, he writes :—" Should it be a " white night ' —a Saint's Day or Sabbath—our young man will wear a surplice, which he will hang upon his back as though it were a sheet upon a line. Otherwise he must go to chapel in his gowu. There he may sing as loud as Burlybumbo, provided the thing be dene in decency and good order. I recollect well our dean at Paul's gating a man because, as he said, he did not give due heed to what he was singing. ' Sir,' said the dean, ' I have overlooked for a long time your gross abuse of vocal power, but your behavior in chapel last night is not to be tolerated.' 'Ob,' said the man, 'l'm very sorry ; but that fellow Jones shouts so, I had to sing him down.' ' It is not your shouting,' answered tbe dean solemnly, ' though that is distracting enough ; it is your rendering of the anthem, sir.' 'My rendering,' exclaimed the man. ' You know what I mean, sir,' retorted the dean. 'I heard you.last night distinctly]; you sang, " Oh, for the wings of a twopenny duck !" And for that, sir, lam now about to gate you.' "
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Hastings Standard, Issue 271, 15 March 1897, Page 4
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223Miscellaneous Extracts. Hastings Standard, Issue 271, 15 March 1897, Page 4
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