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would have pleased aren to-day. But now what has Mr Godley to say about the idle alerical Fellow who certainly was the role, rather than the exception, in the 18th century? How does he explain him to us, so that, understanding, we may forgive He laye bis finger on the work spot of the syetour when he reminds us that Fellows were compelled to reside, whether there was tutorial work for them in the college or leianza walling for a living.

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Celibatas by compulsion, harded together in colleges with no necessary aptitudo for s life of education or research, often indeed with no conception of a college except as an unavoidable step to preforment in the outer world, many graduates could naturally odions chronicle of quarrals, bickerings, find nothing better to do than to make college history such as we know it-s and backbitings, wrangles about politics and college business.

Yet even these quarrels, Mr Godley points out, had their uses, for they saved the haunters of common roots from lives of actual lethargy.

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Mr Godley planned his volume; the aim of which, he would say, is not so much to apologize for the century, as to help the modern world, and its radical element As to the 18th contury undergraduates io particular, to understand it. Tout com.they need neither explanation nor apology; prendre, c'eal tout pardonner. It must be rarieties as the same genial race to-day.ed

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Mr Godley does not exams him; he explains him. First of all he goes through the ovidence, and agrees that, with some fortnight; for assailing the Dean with brilliant exceptions, the professorate, der insulte and curses another is crossed for a week; and the same penalty is deemed ing the greater part of the century, did not suficient for spending the night out of fecture math. He recalls the story of the college, for drunkenness, even for homicide. Divinity Professor in Tatrao Filius," On the other and an undergraduate at who appeared one Thursday morning is not only rusticated but sentenced to an Christ Church, for some unknown offence, in the ually empty school, found three imposition so Cargantuan as to merit Masters of Arts waiting for him, took transcription. He was ordered to abridge two or three turns, announced that three the whole of Herodotus, to master four did not make a quorum, and retired.hooks of Euclid, to work all the examples in M'Laurin's Algebra Part 1.; to make Clearly a professor cannot be expected to notes on all St. Paul's Epistles, and prepare divinity lectures on the chance of a careful diary of the hindred last astray Master of Acts dropping in for Paalma in Hebrew; and to translate a joke. But now comes in Mr Godlay's into Latin both parts of the ninth discourse HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK. in the second volume of Sermons. What explanation. Es points out that professors one wishes to know is whether the young

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before the Hosting. occupation was gone; and as yet the new century." We cannot shat our eyes toquested to apply for WARRANTS, ides of research had not come above the Oxford turbulent and anarchic, and left it the patent fact that the 18th century fourd

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