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Was Oxford or Cambridge first Founded?[13]
Origin of this celebrated Controversy[16]
Died of Literary Mortification[17]
Sir Simon D’Ewes on Antiquity of Cambridge[ib.]
Gone to Jerusalem[18]
Cutting Retort—Liberty a Plant[19], [20]
A Tailor surprised—Declining King George, &c.[20]
Classical Jeu D’Esprit—Trait of Barrow[21]
Inveterate Smokers[22]
Lover of Tobacco—A Wager, &c.[22], [23]
Newton’s Toast—Piety of Ray[23]
Devil over Lincoln—Radcliffe’s Library[24]
Traits of Dr. Bathurst—His Whip, &c.[25]
Smart Fellows[ib.]
Epigram—Tell us what you can’t do?[26], [27]
First Woman introduced into a Cloister[27]
Cambridge Scholar and Ghost of Scrag of Mutton[28]
Comparisons are odious[30]
Jaunt down a Patient’s throat—Difference of Opinion[30], [31]
Petit-Maitre Physician—Anecdote of Porson[31]
Οὐ τόδε οὐδ αλλο—Aliquid—Di-do-dum[32]
Bishop Heber’s College Puns[ib.]
Effect of Broad-wheeled Wagon, &c.[33]
Queen Elizabeth and the Men of Exeter College, &c.[34]
Oxonians Posed—Lapsus Grammaticæ[35]
Latin to be Used—Habit—Concussion[36]
Comic Picture of Provost’s Election[37]
Sir, Dominus, Magistri, Sir Greene[38]
Husbands beat their Wives—Attack on Ladies[39]
Doings at Merton—Digging Graves with Teeth[40]
Doctor’s Gratitude to Horse—John Sharp’s Rogue[41]
Said as how you’d See—Much Noise as Please[42], [43]
Mad Peter-house Poet—Grace Cup[44], [45]
Tertiavit—Capacious Bowl—Horn Diversion[46]
Bibulous Relique—Christian Custom—Feast Days[47]
Walpole at Cambridge—College Dinner 16th Century[49], [50]
Black Night—Force of Imagination—Absent Habits[52], [53]
Anecdotes of Early Cambridge Poets[54]
Cromwell’s Pear-tree, &c.[58]
Stung by a B—Dr. P. Nest of Saxonists[61]
Pleasant Mistake—Minding Roast[62]
College Exercise—Bell—Fun—Tulip-time[62], [63]
King of Denmark—King William IV. visit Cambridge[64], [65]
Queen Elizabeth’s Visit to Oxford and Cambridge[66], [67]
First Dissenter in England[67]
First English Play extant by Cambridge Scholar[68]
Christ-Church Scholars Invented moveable Scenes[70]
James I. at Oxford and Cambridge[71]
Divinity Act—Latin Comedy[76], [77]
Case of Precedence—Smothered in Petticoats[78], [79]
Brief Account of Boar’s Head Carols[79]
Celebration of, at Queen’s College, Oxon[83]
Cleaving Block—Being little[84], [85]
Traits of Porson—Wakefield—Clarke[87], [88]
Blue Beans—University Bedels—Dr. Bentley[89], [90]
Great Gaudy All-Souls Mallard[91]
Oxford Dream—Compliments to Learned Men[96], [98]
Point of Etiquette—Value of Syllable[101], [102]
Cocks may Crow—Profane Scoffers[102]
Jemmy Gordon—Oxford Wag[103], [106]
Cambridge Frolics—Black Rash[107], [108]
Old Grizzle Wig—Shooting Anecdotes[109], [110]
Bishop Watson’s Progress—Paley, &c.[111], [115]
Oxford Hoax—Good Saying[116], [117]
Walpole a Saint—Oxford famous for its Sophists, &c.[118]
Laconic Vice—Usum Oxon—Pert Oxonians[120], [121]
Corrupted Latin Tongue—Surpassed Aristotle, &c.[121]
Set Aristotle Heels upwards—Art of Cutting[122], [123]
Soldiers at Oxford Disputation, &c.[123]
Captain Rag—Dainty Morsels[124], [125]
Answered in Kind—Powers of Digestion[126], [127]
Inside Passenger—Traits of Paley[128], [129]
Lord Burleigh and Dissenters—Sayings[134], [135]
Porson—Greek Protestants at Oxon[135], [136]
Cambridge Folk—Gyps—Drops of Brandy—Dessert for Twenty, &c.[137], [138]
Parr’s Eloquence—Address—Vanity, &c.[140]
Trick of the Devil—Three Classical Puns[142], [143]
Acts—Pleasant Story—Epigram—Revenge[144], [145]
Mothers’ Darlings—Fathers’ Favourites[146], [147]
Iter Academicum—A Story[148], [149]
Anecdotes of Freshmen[150]
Lord Eldon—Whissonset Church[151], [152]
Boots—Yellow Stockings—Fashion Hair[153], [154]
Barber dressed—First Prelate wore Wig[155], [159]
Boots, Spurs, &c. prohibited at Oxon[159]
Whipping, &c.—Flying Cambridge Barber[159], [160]
Isthmus Suez—Drink for Church[160], [161]
Good Appetite—College Quiz—The Greatest Calf[162], [163]
Like Rabelais—Ambassadors King Jesus at Oxon[163], [164]
Effort Intellect—Dr. Hallifax—Dr. Tucker[164], [165]
Distich—Skeleton Sermons—Paid First[165], [166]
In the Stocks—Hissing—Posing—Gross Pun[167], [168]
Family Spintexts—Alcock—Barrow, Parr, &c.[169], [170]
Three-headed Priest—Burnt to Cinder[171], [172]
Cantab Invented Short-hand—Humble Petition of Ladies[172], [173]
Turn for Humour—Repartees—All over Germany[174], [175]
Oxford and Cambridge Rebuses[175]
Something in your way—Duns—Out of Debt[177]
Queering a Dun—Gray and Warburton[179]
Canons of Criticism—Bishop Barrington[181]
Pulpit Admonition—Simplicity of great Minds[182]
Singularities—Triple Discourse[184], [185]
Traits of Lord Sandwich—Lapsus Linguæ[185], [186]
Oxford and Cambridge Loyalty—Clubs, &c.[186], [189]
Retrogradation—On-dit[190]
Worcester Goblin—Cambridge Triposes[191], [192]
Records of Cambridge Triposes—Wooden Spoon—Poll—Conceits of Porson, Vince, &c. [193], [194]
Classical Triposes—Wooden Wedge—Disney’s Song[197], [198]
A Dreadful Fit of Rheumatism[199]
Parr an Ingrate—Le Diable—Critical Civilities[200], [201]
Sir Busick and Sir Isaac again—Cole: Deum[201], [202]
Freshman’s Puzzle[202]
Sly Humourist—Noble Oxonian—Oxford Wag—Person of Gravity[203], [204]
The Enough[204]