New-York tribune., 1900-12-15

ever justihable. But probably the best in this
series OF rhymes is:
First come 1 my name is Jowett:
Whatever can be known. know IL.
] am the Master of the College;
what know not is not knowledge.
Covering the midcentury period, these remi-
niseences could not their comprehensive
catholicity. omit mention Of such genius for
witty buffoonery as Blaydes. the undergraduate
whose wild pranks have been emulated by
scores OF other youths lacking mis- intellectual
brilliancy. Blaydes is better known to posterity
under the name Of Calverley, which he assumed
at Cambridge when, after a meteoric two years.
Oxford could no longer endure him. 1t was to
him that Bartlett addressed the epigram:
Oh, freshman. redoIent Of weed,
On, scholar, running fast to seed
This maxim in thy meerschaum put
The sharpest Blades will soonest cut.
Blaydes made this reply:
Your verse is tolerable, but
My case you understand i'll;
For though the Dons want Blaydes to cut
They cannot find handle.
Mr.. Tuckweu records in more serious vein this
touching anecdOte of Calverley: He heard from
a profigate acquaintance of country girl
turned out of home by her parents for dis
obedience in some love affair, come TO seek SER
vice at Cambridge. not yet ruined but in a
house where ruin inevitable and imminent
10 be seen by tutor or proctor in questionable
company at a house of i'll repute wouId mean
rustication or expulsion; but he went TO the
place at once, eXtricated the girl took her with
him to the station, paid her fare. and sent her
home with an earnestly written letter TO her
father, which brought about reconciliation and
saved her"
Another Of the more youthful wits of Oxford
in those days was Kidding of New College.
q lend NH,
verse on the Duke Of Welngton's funeral asked
Kidding to give him good Latin rendering for
lying in state" Kidding suggested 'splendide
mendax- There is much interesting rernfnis-
cenee OF Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Matthew
Arnold, Clougn and others of that period and
Thorold Rogers, afterward the eccentric wonder
% 'he i1ouse OF Commons, is the subject of a
very pretty little Character sketch. Rogers's idea
u tle eieEetest retort ever made was that of a
certain admiral TO the Duke of Clarence u,no
Deoahe william ": Il hear sir" said the
Duke. that you are the biggest hlao,,.-,ara q
PORTSMOUTH The admiraPs replv was. at boa
hour Royal Highness has not come down to tot.
away my Character" But judging him b,, tbas.
"reminiscences. Rogers could have do,a ha..o.
hiinSeh- Naturally enough for ona VIII -,
grown up ana grown old at Oxford Mr. 1,,o,,
wei Goes not seem altogether satisfied with ~.
1's''ii.iisy athletic tendencies of latter gen
:. N-.s ne lalthtuliy records the ascendencv
" a1hietie interests in the juvenile mind even
In the earlier half of the century:
CohNersing with an Old Harrovian tba o.,.-
uay asked what sort OF a reputatIoe &c 10 otner
S .ete osh.hd him AT the school Not in annesras
Ior VII and verse writing but as the aI siea, h
SIo ever Jumped from the top 10 the hotton1 =,
the Old school steps So Matthew ArnoISsOii ~ OF
Dser the Wadham railings used TO be famiiiar ~
many who had never read his books "
nevertheless. the authors own opinion on the
question OF athletics is plainly enough expresssd
In another place thus:
The thought devoted now TO matches .,s
events and high jumps and bikes moved thu
@ on Io1uer planes: in our walks no less than a.
our rooms, then, not as now '
We glanced from theme to theme
discussed the books TO love and hate"
"a oniss ! fear "a unathetc days was possible
40 oiiueht talk OF a Tennyson and EaiIarn IN