The Red dragon - 1882 Author:Charles Wilkins Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GOSSIP FROM THE WELSH COLLEGES. JESUS COLLEGE, OXFORD. Most of our men assembled at Chapel on the morning of the 15th to commence Term, but we are comparat... more »ively few in residence this term, only about forty-five, I think, out of sixty or sixty-five ; we expect, however, to be inundated during the last week in May, when the " Schools" are ready for victims, and the Commemoration Festivities begin. Including five sets of rooms gutted by the recent fire, we have ten sets in College this term unoccupied. Apropos of the Commemoration, our College Concert will, as usual, open the season. Last year, and also in 1880, it was the acknowledged success of the term, and we trust that it will be still better this year ; the singing talent in the Velsh College is far-famed, and the tickets for its concert are eagerly sought after by the visitors which throng the city during " Comiuem." week. I have been favoured with a peep at the proposed programme, but 1 must not divulge any of its secrets beyond the fact that several well-known Welsh songs are on the list. One of our men (Mr. A. M. Evanson) won the silver medals for " putting the weight " at the Inter-University Sports at Lillie Bridge, on March 31, and also at the Oxford University Athletic Sports last Term. He is also a prominent member of the University Football (Rugby) team. Jesus has also a man in the University Cricket Eleven (Mr. Cr. E. Robinson). With regard to cricket in the College, I cannot venture to hazard an opinion as yet. We have a goodly number of matches before us already fixed, and I can only say that if we are up to last year's form—and I think we ought to be—w shall win most of them. Our Vice-Principal is still kept away from us by his continued ill-health. The climate in the neighbourhood of Oxford does not a...« less