New-York tribune., 1875-12-25

colleges The University discipline is not very rig
orous Beyond few rrries as TO the wearing of cap
and gown, attending certain lectures, not engaging
in horse races, and staying within college hini's
at night. there is little demanded OF the undei-
graduate The ways of the University naFo
changed since the days when the Dean OF corpus
Christi College whipped in the Common nan d
scholar who had made verses against the Mass
when Dr. Potter of Trinity whipped pupil with his
sword by his side when he to take his leave Oh
him to 90 20 the Inns of Court. One OF the most
curious privileges possessed by the University is It's
Chanceors' Court, which has complete jurisdiction
in all civil OF criminal cases in which its resident
members are concerned, Town and Gown being per-
fectly distinct. The Vice-Chancellor. before whom
all criminal charges against University members are
first brought. is by royal charter justice Oh the
peace and has power to deal with the matter sum
mnrily or remit it to the courts of law as he may
see fit. Cases Of debt are also brought before the
Chancellors' Court, whose procedure resembles that
Of county courts The penalties in the power Of the
court, which il held every Friday during term are
distraint imprisonment, rustication, and expulsion
One of the latest decided that OF an Anel-
can student summoned before the court by inland
revenue officers for using sheet Of letter paper on
which was stamped his college crest, neither he nor
the college having the license to do the same. For
this misdemeanor he paid nominal line OF 10, ana
undergraduate feeling concerning inland revenue Is
not amiabe.
Ballol College has a reputation, possibly exagger-
ated. Of sending ont the best students. Cardinal
Manning once a darling of the University until LIE
went over to Rome, was of Balol so were Souihey'
and Adam Smith, and Dean Stanley and Pfor.
Jowett Christ Church College, founded by VOL
sev is the most extensive one of the richest and
q all he a
tions. II finds It's students among titled families
and the wcalthiest commoners. II was IN this col
lece that the Prince Of Wales and his brother-in-
law OF Denmark studed-a fact which is celebrated
by a magnificent heradc window in the great hail.
This room with its high, carved roof Of oak, and It'd
lining of faded portraits, looks at the dining hour
ike a bit out Of a historical novel. The place OF
honor on the wall at the upper end is held by large
painting of an exceedingly fat, irritable redfaeed
beerv personage-fIenry VIII, of course, next
to IL il precious Holben-a portrait of the great
Lord Cardinal" Wolsey, very hard, fat, and nat
ural like most Hobeins. Under these pictures IS
platform on which is set the table OF the
heads of the college whereat they dino
in feudal state masters, bachelors, and undergrad
yates sitting in the comparative humility OF side
tables on the ioor of the nall. The napery ana
china are of the daintest sort, and so Is the b OF
fare. Nothing Sc aDsurdlY modern as IlhHc u'H-
figures the great kitchen Of the college, which
remains inst as IL was built by Wolsey centuries ago.
There is high but shallow fire fenced by grating.
before which slowly turn several spits loaded with
chickens. game, legs of mutton, and mighty pieces
of beef all giving out smell TO make an anchorite
break his VOWS. lordly head-cook markets for the
college and sends to the rooms of the undergraduates
the delicate little dinners and lunches and break
fasts they are incessantiy ordering The dinner
hour in hall is g. and for luncheon at Is provided
host OF good things that would make a student in an
American college stare On the pretty decorated
china are outspread countless pink slices Of cold
beef and ham picturesquey garnished quantities OF
cold game in resigned attitudes, and no end Of little
hot puddiugs and tarts and turnoyers robed IN
wOndrous French paste
The riches If oxford in the way Of libraries and of
art and historical collections may well be the
despair of lesser universities. They Offer 80 great
opportunities for cultivation and research that large
a. is her list of famous men must wonder that 1t
is not larger still.