The Torpids.
Brasenose has started head boat since 1852, when the Torpids were first rowed in the Lent Term:—
- *1852 (3 days)
- 1853 (5)
- 1854 (4)
- 1859 (2)
- *1861 (5)
- *1862 (6)
- 1863 (5)
- *1866 (5)
- 1867 (2)
- *1874 (2)
- *1875 (6)
- 1876 (1)
- 1882 (2)
- 1883 (3)
- *1886 (4)
- *1887 (6)
- *1888 (6)
- *1889 (6)
- *1890 (6)
- *1891 (6)
* In these years it left off Head of the River.
In all 85 days; the next highest number being 59 (Exeter). The boat has never fallen lower than the eighth place. Between 1839 and 1851, when the Torpids were rowed after the Eights, B.N.C. left off head at least in 1842, 1845, 1850 and 1851.
[225] In Parker’s Handbook to Oxford is noticed the singularly beautiful effect of the sun shining on summer evenings through both the west and east windows, when viewed from Radcliffe Square.
[226] The reputed founder of Little University Hall: it is believed that the “King’s Hall” in the formal title of B.N.C. is a reference to Alfred; but he, Henry VIII., and Victoria may be regarded as equally claiming the Royal Arms which face the High Street.
[227] A Life of Foxe, prefixed to his episcopal register at Wells, by Mr. Chisholm Batten, passed through the press simultaneously with my article. The two lives are perfectly independent of one another, and neither had been seen by the author of the other, though Mr. Batten and I had interchanged information on certain points. I am glad to say that I believe there is no material fact in Foxe’s Life in regard to which we differ.
[228] See the chapter on Trinity College.
[229] This word = “kissing,” alluding to the amatory propensities of some of the monks of the time. It is often wrongly printed “buzzing.”