: Rowlandson's Oxford by Gibbs A Hamilton Arthur Hamilton Rowlandson Thomas Illustrator - University of Oxford

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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

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

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

The germ of Ruskin Hall--Description of himself--George Whitefield--College exercises--Running errands and copying lines--Samuel Wesley--Famous servitors 46-54

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

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

Tolerated ignorance--Lax discipline--Gibbon and Magdalen-- The "Vindication"--Opposing and responding--"Schemes"-- Doing austens--Perjury and bribes--Receiving presents-- Magdalen collections 83-94

Tutors--Their slackness--The real and the ideal tutor--Dr Newton on tutors' fees--Dr Johnson's recommendation of Bateman--Public lecturers--Terrae Filius and a Wadham man's letter 153-162

The examiners--Perjury and bribery--Method of examining-- College Fellows--Election to Fellowships--Gibbon and the Magdalen Dons--Heads of colleges--Their domestic and public character--Golgotha and Ben Numps--St John's head pays homage to Christ Church--Drs Marlowe and Randolph 163-174

Proctors--The Black Book--Personal spite and the taking of a degree--The case of Meadowcourt of Merton--Extract from Black Book--The taverner and the Proctor--Isaac Walton and the senior Proctor--Amhurst's character sketch of a certain Proctor 175-183

Charles James Fox--Earl of Malmesbury--William Eden--Cards and claret--Midnight oil--Oxford friendships remembered afterwards--Edward Gibbon--Delicate bookworm--Antagonism towards Oxford--Becomes a Roman Catholic--Subsequent apostasy--John Wesley--Resists taking orders--Germs of ambition--America the golden opportunity--Oxford responsible for Methodism 184-198

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