, 1873-12-14

Alma Mator with tic protonnlcHt vonoratlon mud
love.
Tho oldest Of tho Oxford colleges 10 Morton,
on our way to which wo lasa betwocn two
others, Of which wo must Bay word or two.
Que,
| CORPUS 0nnIBrr,
was founded, III Hurry tho Eightl's reign, by
bishop Fox, tu memory Of wlIom n lann fox
was ltopt III tho college for n,ni,y yonrs. IInd
Corpus nothing olao 10 boast Of but tloso two
gla,ts Of Tho English Church, DHl,op Jowc!l mud
tho julclo,w Hooker, who wero lor sonn, she
might vol 10 proud but size rcckons It, her
roll mahy worthy succoBsorB Of tlioso giants, In
oludiny tint "Qulf Of !uariug," John RainoldB,
| Dr.. Dscklantl, and John Koble. wlloso Chris
tian Year " Ind raachoa It's 11(tll oliton' md
2G5tb Thousand five yoar, ago Directly opposite
Corpus IN
on1E1 oo11EGE,
whose buildings aro not remarkable. but which
nany clallongo any other college tu show moro
spsonlhl mnstcr-roll OF nanles. 11cre wcro
trimmed Sir Waltor Raleigh Ohiof TuRtico Holt;
Bshop Butlor tho euthor Of tint iln,rognablo
bulwarl Of UhriHtia;ity, tho Analogy Of
Natural and noyealoa Rsltgion;' rrynuc tho
htout Nopublican, whose oars were cut Of by
| H. HlHMtlhut LuH iI{uUub 1ut1illT0
from tho camp Of .Auelicanlsm," !" man Of ilob,e
intellect ndnutique loftinoBs OF Boul aud ono OF
tile groasest maatoru Of Engl,sl Of this century;
I Archbishop Wllateiy, whose "Logsc )" haa cruc-
fed tho wit Of nu muny stt,slcnts; Matthew Ar
mold "Tom Blown" i!u5hea; Bishop Kon, tho
beautiful 1'yln1nist; aud scoros Of other mon
hardly less itlustlious.
MERTON,
"tie prinlary model Of n!l tic collegiate bodies
in Oxford aud Cambridge" merits ruiuuter no.
tico than our Bpace permits III to giyo. It las
t1ruo quadranEloB, In ono of tho smallest of
which is tlo chapel, Which, iu grandeur Of pro-
| portion raukB second to nono in Oxford Tho
side Windows, Of which there are fourteen,
Illuminated In imltali0u Of those at Cologuc,
arc u,aryaa Of beauty; and tho great cnst or
| Catherine-whool window ls 1llcd with tracory
that is raroiy matched III del'cacy. In looking at
tho architectural triumphs Of this aud many
other cIapols III Oxford, wllcro
Through mullioned winllowa' tinted papes
| The rolored radiance softly falls,
Anu dyes with illcAernE rosGttN snfna
Tllo navo and asle, the Hour una wulls,
ono IL tempted agan md agai1l to ask, Whore did
those old 1naHons Of the N1ddlo Ages loarn tho
secrets Of their skill They certainly seem to
haye Ind mora cunning fingers tllau thcir mod
eru a1lcceasorH, aud to havo nodded their stoue-
|
p1astlo material. In tho Middle Ages, Morton
| College was famous for Its professors in ao1olas-
| tic theology. Bradwardino, the great "tloctor
doctorum; y John Durs scotus, tho acutost and
most snbtle-witscd Of sho schoolmeu, whose
namo. by @ lard fate, haH become synonym for
stupidity (dunce); Ocean, tho "inyinciblo :"
john Wyckfe, Sir Richard Steelc, aud Harvey,
| who discovered tlIe circulation OF the blood
| all belonged 10 ilorton.
| Next In ago to Merton, but aomo distance
| from It, Ia
DALL1OI. COLLEGE,
founded III tho thirteenth century. OF which
Plof. Jowott, Of the famous Essayu and 1lo-
views memory, is Mastor, Horo Adam Smith
tho economist. Archbishop Manning, aud Bisl1-
op Tomple, Dr. Arnold'a succossor at Rugby,
wore oducatoa, Among tho Masters Of Daoi
in tho eighteenth century was d notod wit auti
l,uuasor, Dr. Thoophilus Leigh. His conversa-
tion was perpetual stream Of jests md rotofts;
but his most successful practical joke was living
| to over 90, when ho had beou elected Alastor on
| account Of Ills weak health mud likelihood to dio
| oarly. AZ specimen Of his jeux d'espyit 1t is
said TINT, wilea ono told lin how, in lato
dispute ninong The priyy Councillors. tho Lord
| Chancellor struck tho table with such violence
tint he split it, DR.. Leigh replied, mo. no;
|
bic, though i believe lo d;pidcd the Board
Almost IN death the ruling passion triumphetl.
Being told, in his last sokuess that friend had
boon lately married, that ho Lad recovered
from long illness by eating eggs, mud that tho
wits said ho had boon egged on to matrimouy,
tho Doctor ut onco tranped the joke by adding,
''Thcn may tho yoke sit easy On him." 1t was
to DR.. Parsons, the forty-fourth Master of this
College, afterwards V1co-C Chancellor of tho Uni
versity, that Theodore Hook madc his reply
when le natrioNlatod, at Oxford. Beug asked
if hc was prepared to subscribo to tho Thirty
nino Articles" Theodore replied. Oh, certainly,
sir; forty, If yon ploasoI"
Leaving Dalliol, We stroll down Broad street,
and. attracted by tho Bound Of music, ontor the
garlcns Of
NEW COLLEGE,
which, like Now York, Dc!iee ita name having
boon founded IN 1870 by William Of
Wykeham. The gardens are charnliugIy re-
tired, aud among tho most boautful
Of the many delicious retreats which
Oxford ofors to tho weary or metlitatye gcholar.
Wo wonder not that CUR countryman, tho silly,
contempfative Hawthorne was ravslol by this
''swoet, quiet. stately, Haorol aocusion," n,"-theso
lawuB Of tho richest green and softost velvet
grass, Ehalowcd over by ancient troes aud
sholtorod from the rude wiuds for we eau oon-
| ceivo of nothing moro delightful than to spend
an hours LEISURE oasnod by u half-loxen hours
Of hard Dtudy, In lounging about Or Lying down
iu these lovely grounds, building air-caatlos,
planning new intellectual conquesta. or m.,aug
over tho daya of lang pyno." Tile charm OF
tho gardens is onhancod By tho picturesque
viewa one gota hero OF the collogo-b bnilings
and QUO hears with interest that the bound
cry Oh ono aldo is tho ancient cily-wall
which Cronwell's artillery battered ut the siege
Of tho town. Tho music TINT drew us hero comes
from n ano band attacllod to military company
Of the studonta, which plays two or throo attor-
moons in tho woek for the delight OF thu scholars
and their outside friends. THO coucost ended,
wo attona tho evening service In tho chapel, aud
listen to somo Of tho most exquisite choral lar