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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

............................................. ............... 130 SPEECH: THE OXFORD AND HARV ARD BOAT RACE. SYDENHAM, AUGUST 30, 1869. .................... ...ire to see in every town in England. Next, I be lieve, is the Spring Hill College, a learned institution be longing to the body of Independents, for... ...t and ablest contributors to the Edinburgh Review. The next is the Queen’s College, which, I may say, is only a newly born child; but, in the hands of... ...s’s Theatre, for the purpose of establishing the now famous Royal Dramatic College. Mr. Charles Kean was the chairman, and Mr. Dickens delivered the f... ...then surprising rate of fifteen miles an hour. The very last time I was at Exeter, I strolled into the castle yard there to identify, for the amusemen... ...n against them. More recently still, the last time that he rowed down from Oxford he was supposed to cover him self with honour, though he must admit... ...y heart at between half past six and half past seven to night. SPEECH: THE OXFORD AND HARVARD BOAT RACE. SYDENHAM, AUGUST 30, 1869. The International ...

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