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| [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] |
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| [CHAPTER II] |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER |
| First arrival—Footpads and “easy pads”—Farewell to parents—A forlorn animal—TerraeFilius’s advice—Much prayers—“Hell has no fury like a woman scorned”—The disadvantages of a conscience | [9-17] |
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| [CHAPTER III] |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER—(continued) |
| Ceremony of matriculation—Paying the swearing-broker—Colman and the Vice-Chancellor—Learningthe Oxford manner—Homunculi Togati—Academia and a mother’s love—Thejovial father—Underground dog-holes and shelving garrets—The harpy and the sheets—The first night | [18-28] |
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| [CHAPTER IV] |
| THE SMART |
| Valentine Frippery and his letter—Boiled chicken and pettitoes—Lyne’s coffee-house and thebillet doux—Tick—Liquor capacity—A Smart advises The Student—Latin odes for tradesmen only | [29-38] |
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| [CHAPTER V] |
| THE TOAST |
| Terrae Filius sums her up—Merton Wall butterflies—Hearne comments—Flavia and theorange tree—Dick, the sloven—The President under her thumb—Amhurst’s table of cons.—King Charles and the other place | [39-45] |
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| [CHAPTER VI] |
| THE SERVITOR |
| The germ of Ruskin Hall—Description of himself—George Whitefield—College exercises—Runningerrands and copying lines—Samuel Wesley—Famous servitors | [46-54] |
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| [CHAPTER VII] |
| SPORTS AND ATHLETICS |
| Rowing—Dame Hooper’s—Southey at Balliol—Cox’s six-oared crew—The river-side barmaid—Sailing-boats—Statutesagainst games—Bell-ringing—Hearne and gymnasia—Horses and badger-baiting—Cock-fights and prize-fights—Paniotti’s FencingAcademy—Old-time “bug-shooters”—Skating in Christ Church meadows—Cricket and the Bullingdon Club—Walking tours | [55-68] |
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| [CHAPTER VIII] |
| CLUBS AND SOCIETIES |
| The foregathering fresher—Dibdin and the “Lunatics”—The Constitution Club—The OxfordPoetical Club—Its rules and minutes—High Borlace—The Freecynics and Banterers | [69-82] |
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| [CHAPTER IX] |
| WORK AND EXAMINATIONS |
| Tolerated ignorance—Lax discipline—Gibbon and Magdalen—The “Vindication”—Opposingand responding—“Schemes”—Doing austens—Perjury and bribes—Receiving presents—Magdalen collections | [83-94] |
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| [CHAPTER X] |
| ’VARSITY LITERATURE |
| Present-day ineptitude—Jackson’s Oxford Journal—Domestic intelligence—Election poems—Curiousadvertisements—Superabundance of St John’s editors—Terrae Filius | [95-108] |
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| [CHAPTER XI] |
| ’VARSITY LITERATURE—(continued) |
| The Student—Cambridge included—Its design—The female student—Poem by Sir WalterRaleigh—Bishop Atterbury’s letter—The manly woman | [109-121] |
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| [CHAPTER XII] |
| ’VARSITY LITERATURE—(continued) |
| The Oxford Magazine—Introduction of illustrations—Odd advertisements—Attention paid tothe Drama—Prologue to the Cozeners, written by Garrick—Visions, fables, and moraltales—The Loiterer—Diary of an Oxford man, 1789 | [122-135] |
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| [CHAPTER XIII] |
| ’VARSITY LITERATURE—(continued) |
| The Oxford Packet—Academia: or the Humours of Oxford—The Oxford Act—The OxfordSausage—Present and latter day literature summed up | [136-141] |
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| [XIV] |
| THE OXFORD TRADESMAN |
| The Student’s opinion of one—A tradesman’s poem and its result—Dodging the dun—Debtand its penalties—Tradesmen’s taste in literature—Advertising and The Loiterer—Tick—DrNewton, innkeeper—Amhurst’s confession—Fathers and trainers of toasts | [142-152] |
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| [CHAPTER XV] |
| THE DON |
| Tutors—Their slackness—The real and the ideal tutor—Dr Newton on tutors’ fees—DrJohnson’s recommendation of Bateman—Public lecturers—Terrae Filius and a Wadham man’s letter | [153-162] |
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| [CHAPTER XVI] |
| THE DON—(continued) |
| The examiners—Perjury and bribery—Method of examining—College Fellows—Election toFellowships—Gibbon and the Magdalen Dons—Heads of colleges—Their domestic andpublic character—Golgotha and Ben Numps—St John’s head pays homage to Christ Church—Drs Marlowe and Randolph | [163-174] |
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| [CHAPTER XVII] |
| THE DON—(continued) |
| Proctors—The Black Book—Personal spite and the taking of a degree—The case of Meadowcourtof Merton—Extract from Black Book—The taverner and the Proctor—IsaacWalton and the senior Proctor—Amhurst’s character sketch of a certain Proctor | [175-183] |
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| [CHAPTER XVIII] |
| CELEBRITIES AS OXFORD MEN |
| Charles James Fox—Earl of Malmesbury—William Eden—Cards and claret—Midnight oil—Oxfordfriendships remembered afterwards—Edward Gibbon—Delicate bookworm—Antagonismtowards Oxford—Becomes a Roman Catholic—Subsequent apostasy—JohnWesley—Resists taking orders—Germs of ambition—America the golden opportunity—Oxford responsible for Methodism | [184-198] |
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| [CHAPTER XIX] |
| CELEBRITIES AS OXFORD MEN—(continued) |
| William Collins—Joins the Smarts—Forgets how to work—Oxford kills his will-power—Loseshis reason—Samuel Johnson at Pembroke—A lonely freshman—Translates Pope’sMessiah—Suffers horribly from poverty—Dr Adam, his tutor—Readiness and physicalpluck—Love of showing off—His love of Pembroke | [199-210] |