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PET[RIT[ L Von . VII .
JULY, 1885 .
No . 53
OXFORD LETTER. S every undergraduate member of the Peterite community up here has been in the Schools this term, and therefore has been at the call of duty and necessity more or less oblivious of the gay world around him, the Oxford Letter is rendered a more difficult task than usual to compile. To carry the shattered fragments of what once might be called a memory as far back as the Eights, for the first three nights they were rowed in most disagreeable weather, and so favourable to heavy and powerful crews, whilst proportionately disadvantageous to form without strength . Corpus, with Hornby, Clemans, and Carter, as expected, went ahead, while Exeter, who had lost nearly all their old men, descended from the position they had for three years maintained with the greatest ease. to that of fourth . New College—on paper as usual, an exceedingly strong boat, including D . and H . MacLean, Bourne, and Fothergill—rose four places . Of the lower boats Oriel was the most successful, and at the close of the week was able to celebrate their six bumps with a prodigious amount of feasting and fireworks. So dense was the smoke on the Oriel quad ., that after a while it was impossible to see the pyrotechnic display at all . The neighbouring
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college of Merton, who had gone in for a most lavish expenditure in training their eights, among whom the manly form of C . G . Wade might be descried, suffered a severe disappointment, for all the bumps they were concerned in were much too near stroke to be considered a cause of rejoicing . The flag of Queens also, who carried on board twoand-a-half vegetarians, had to be lowered a few times in the course of the week. At Henley we shall probably be represented by Corpus, Magdalen, and O riel . The two MacLeans are in for the Pairs, while Unwin will probably meet Pitman for the Sculls .