Penultimate Post

A week ago, we of St. Mary's College had our annual School dinner and I have just about recovered from it. There are always entertaining speeches and songs, and this time Matthew Ford, one of the students in the Dead Sea Scrolls course, sang us a work of his own composition about the School. As has been my custom with such things, apart from the first verse I will quote (with his permission) only the verse that pertains to me:

There is a college called St. Mary's Quad,
there studies divines, where great men have trod.
They do lots of talking, and coffee they drink,
You'll pass your exams, with a nod and a wink.

St. Mary's Quad, St. Mary's Quad,
It looks like we've had a few;
We're funny peculiar, and all very bright,
The wonderfully odd St. Mary's Quad.

There was a young scholar of ancient Hebrew,
his name is Doc. Davila, bad grammar won't do.
He studies the Yahad, there no much he misses.
He likes to pronounce 'the Groningen Hypothesis.'

St. Mary's Quad, St. Mary's Quad,
It looks like we've had a few;
We're funny, peculiar, and all very bright,
The wonderfully odd St. Mary's Quad!