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ROWLANDSON’S OXFORD
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ROWLANDSON’S OXFORD
BY
A. HAMILTON GIBBS
(ST JOHN’S COLLEGE)
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO. LTD.
1911
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| THE UNDERGRADUATE THEN AND NOW | |
| Blissful ignorance—The real education—Empty schools—Manhood—Lonely freshers—The “pi” man—The newcomer’s metamorphosis—The Lownger’s day—Regrets at being down | 1-8 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER | |
| First arrival—Footpads and “easy pads”—Farewell to parents—A forlorn animal—Terrae Filius’s advice—Much prayers—“Hell has no fury like a woman scorned”—The disadvantages of a conscience | 9-17 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER—(continued) | |
| Ceremony of matriculation—Paying the swearing-broker—Colman and the Vice-Chancellor—Learning the Oxford manner—Homunculi Togati—Academia and a mother’s love—The jovial father—Underground dog-holes and shelving garrets—The harpy and the sheets—The first night | 18-28 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| THE SMART | |
| Valentine Frippery and his letter—Boiled chicken and pettitoes—Lyne’s coffee-house and the billet doux—Tick—Liquor capacity—A Smart advises The Student—Latin odes for tradesmen only | 29-38 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| THE TOAST | |
| Terrae Filius sums her up—Merton Wall butterflies—Hearne comments—Flavia and the orange tree—Dick, the sloven—The President under her thumb—Amhurst’s table of cons.—King Charles and the other place | 39-45 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| THE SERVITOR | |
| The germ of Ruskin Hall—Description of himself—George Whitefield—College exercises—Running errands and copying lines—Samuel Wesley—Famous servitors | 46-54 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| SPORTS AND ATHLETICS | |
| Rowing—Dame Hooper’s—Southey at Balliol—Cox’s six-oared crew—The river-side barmaid—Sailing-boats—Statutes against games—Bell-ringing—Hearne and gymnasia—Horses and badger-baiting—Cock-fights and prize-fights—Paniotti’s Fencing Academy—Old-time “bug-shooters”—Skating in Christ Church meadows—Cricket and the Bullingdon Club—Walking tours | 55-68 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| CLUBS AND SOCIETIES | |
| The foregathering fresher—Dibdin and the “Lunatics”—The Constitution Club—The Oxford Poetical Club—Its rules and minutes—High Borlace—The Freecynics and Banterers | 69-82 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| WORK AND EXAMINATIONS | |
| Tolerated ignorance—Lax discipline—Gibbon and Magdalen—The “Vindication”—Opposing and responding—“Schemes”—Doing austens—Perjury and bribes—Receiving presents—Magdalen collections | 83-94 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| ’VARSITY LITERATURE | |
| Present-day ineptitude—Jackson’s Oxford Journal—Domestic intelligence—Election poems—Curious advertisements—Superabundance of St John’s editors—Terrae Filius | public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@42960@[email protected]#Page_95" class="pginternal" |