Must its walls never rest from the bray of the fool?

Oh, vain as the prospect of summer in May

Are the lessons they learn and the fines that they pay.

All the public discipline, fines, &c., are arranged and levied at the Public School. The Bajuns, Semis, Tertians, and Magistrands are the four years of men. The Regents are the four Professors—Greek, Nat. Hist., Nat. Phil., and Mor. Phil.

From “Life of Professor James Clerk Maxwell” by Lewis Campbell and William Garrett, 1882.


A Lunatic’s Love Song.

O, know you the land where the cheese tree grows,

And the unicorn spins on the end of his nose;

Where the sea-mew scowls on the circling bat,