The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-05

Others He had himself published In 1900
a treatise on the art OF drawing with the
pom and thinning In water color. "Armorie
and Blazonrie" come under this head as
studies proper for a gentleman. The
Exercises of the Bodie' recommended
comprise running. riding, leaping, fitting
throwing. wrestling, swimming, shooting
and falconry Peacham winds up with
some hints on Reputation and Carriage.
To keep good company he enjoins as OF
the first Importance. Frugality and a
moderate diet are to be recommended.
Excess In eating and drinking impair
the health" A paragraph s allotted 10
aAfabilitie IA Discourse" In which
Peachsm enlarges OH giving entertain
ments In a sweet and liberal manner, and
with a cheerful courtesie, seasoning your
talk at the table among grave and serious
discourses, with conceits Of wit and pleasant
inventions, as ingenious epigrams. en-
blems, anagrams, merry tales, witty ques-
tions and answers, rnistakings, 60
Over against this ideal picture Of what
an Oxford undergraduate ought to do
may he set an account Of what he actually
did, which s given in DR.. Earle's sketch Of
"A Young Gentleman. at the University"
and "A Downright Scholar" in his book
entitled Micro Cosmogrsphy. Of tho
first, he said: "He is one who comes there
to wear a gown and say hereafter he has
been at the university His father sends
him because 1t is considered the best school
OF dancing and fencing. The two marks
Of seniority he attains are the velvet Of
his gown. and his efficiency at tennis.
His study has commonly handsome shelves,
his books. neat, silk strings, which he
shows to his fathers man, and n loath to
unite, or take down for fear OF misplacing.
Upon foul days he retires thither
and looks over the pretty books his tutor
reads to him. which is commonly some
short history. or a piece of Euphormius.
for which complaisance his tutor gives him
money to spend next day. His main loiter-
ing is at the library, whare he studies Arms
and Books Of Honor and turns a GENTLE
man critical in pedigrees. But
he is now gone to the Inns Of Court, where
he studies to forget what he learned be-
fore
or THE Downright Scholar known in
modern times as the Dig" Bishop Earle
remarks: "His fault is only this, that his
mind In too much taken up with his mind.
He has not humbled his meditations to the
industry Of compliment, nor afflicted his
brains in an elaborate leg. His scrape is
homely, and his nod worse. He cannot
kiss hands and cry Madam nor talk idle
enough to bear her company. His smack
ing Of gentlewoman is somewhat too
savoury, and he mistakes her nose for her
lips" At table the downright scholar had
no better success. A very woodcock
would puzzle him in carving, and he wants
the logic OF capon. He has not the glib
faculty of sliding over a tale, but his words
come squeamishly out Of his mouth, and
the laughter, commonly. before the jest.
He names the wrong college too often, and
his discourse bears too much on the univer-
sity. The perplexity Of mannerliness will
not let him feed, and he is sharp-set at an
argument when he should cut his meat.
He is discarded for garnester at all games
but one and thirty and at tables he reaches
not beyond doublets. His fingers are not
; long and drawn-out to handle fiddle, but
his fist clenched with the habit OF disputing
| He ascends a horse somewhat sinisterly,
though not on tho left side, and they both
90 jogging to grief together. He is e1-
ceedingly oensured by the Inns OF Court
| men for that heinous vice OF being out Of
fashion. He cannot speak to dog In his
| own dialect, and understands Greek better
! than the language of a falconer." The
Bishop adds, however: But practise him
| little In men, and break him over with
| good company, and he shall out-balance
these glisterers, as far as a solid substance
does feather, or gold gold lace.
Details Of an undergraduates expen-
ditures come out In contemporary cor
respondence. Thus Sir Edmund Verney
writes to Ralph Verney: II pray you send
our brother to Oxford as soon as you
can; will allow him Gao a year. and he
| shall have a cloth suit made him against
Easter. or sooner II need require. Ad-
| wise him TO husband 1t we'll; for know IL
may maintain him well il he will; and more
will not allow him" In later letter:
Now for Nun [Edmundl, / did ever in
tend to pay for his gown over and above
his allowance" Not every undergrad
uate had as much. It has been computed
that In the first half Of the seventeenth
century E40 was worth not much less and
not much more than 600 at the present
value Of money. Mention Is made in the
Harley Letters of an undergraduate who
had to content himself with half as much.
Lady Brilliana writes to her son: @Mr. Grit
fits was with me this day; he tells me he
will allow George at Oxford EGO a year"
Fees to tutors seem to have been at dis
oretion. for Edmund Verney writes to his
, brother: According to your desire asked
Mr. Sessions what II was At for me to give
my Tutour. He told me Mr.. Jones gives
him one pound five shillings the quarter,
and that he would advise me to give him
the like" The carrier, as DR.. Earle init
mates, was great institution In undergrad
uate life. Nearly all the letters were sent
by him, and seem always to have come
safe to hand, if something long on the
road, but those entrusted to the newly es-
tablished post by Shrewsbury and Lud-
low frequently went astray. BY the car
rier, too, were conveyed to Oxford ham,
pers containing all manner Of good things
Biskates, meath, turkey pie, or, IL the
careful mother hears OF q cold, lickerish
water" or. for ague, -oram-potavily"
(aurum potable, described In l7Os as gold
made liquid, or some rich cordial liquor
with pieces OF leaf gold in it," like eau de
vie de Danzig,
The life at the sister university Is de-
scribed at length In Cambridge in the