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Some energetic Members have started a Financial Colll_ mittee, with a view to the solution of a longstanding aCCOunt and as a precautionary measure for the future. As their schelll� - has been General Meeting, we may sanctioned at a expect a radical improvement shortly.
SHAKESPERIAN READING SOCIETY.
This Club, one of the oldest in the College, completed its 299th Meeting on Wednesday, the 23rd of March, 188r. It was founded in 1860 by C. J. Atherton and R. B. Steele. OUR PORTRAIT PICTURES. It was the intention of the Club to hold a dinner at its next Meeting to celebrate its coming of age; but in consequence of the lamentable death of the Master of the College it CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES BELONGING TO was postponed. The following is a list of the - Reading Members: R. Thorman (Prest'denf), H. V. He ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. (Hon. Sec.), F. D. Gaddum, C. E. Hopton, R,. E. D. �. R. H. Landor, A. W. Beard, A. Brett, (In th e Combtna!z'on Room.) Ll. Lloyd, J. F. Ray. H. V. Heber Percy was elected President and C. E. H Secretary for next Reading Term. JAMES WEBSTER, B.D., fo rmerly Fellow, Benefactor, by A. 'J. Olzver, A.R.A. Canvass, 4 ft. I l in. by 3 ft. 3 in. Seated at a table on which are inkstand and books (Powelt's Works and Py le's Works). Holds a MS. open in both hands. Wears a B.D. gown, cassock and bands. White hair, smooth face, looks to right of picture. A very finely painted portrait, three-quarter-length. An engraving of this portrait bears the inscription"Rev. James Webster, B.D. IT IS WITH DEEP REGRET THAT WE [ret. 63J, late Rector of Meppershall, by A. J. Oliver, Esq., A.R .A. , 1809, engraved by Thomas Lupton." HAVE TO RECORD THAT THE REV. James Webster, co·Lancaster, was admitted to a Fellowship at St. John'S, March 22nd, 1774, to a Senior Fellowship, September 24th, 1791. (B(%/w-, WILLIAM HENRY BATES ON, D.D., FOR ed. Ma yor, p. 308, I. 45, p. 330, I. 40). Elected into the Rectory of Meppershall in Bedfordshire, 1791, June 18th (Conclusion Book). Instituted TWENTY-FOUR YEARS �ASTER OF the same year. Died in 1833, and bequeathed to the College £3500 where with was founded one Fellowship Exhibition and one Scholarship Exhibition, THE COLLEGE, DIED AT ST. JOHN'S now merged in the Foundation. A.B. 1770, A.M. 1773, B.D. 1780. EDWARD FREWEN, D.D., fo rmerly Fellow and Tuto r. LODGE ON SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH Canvass, 2 ft. I I in. by 2 ft. 3! in. Wears a gown with bands, looks to left of picture. Oval half-length. Copied by Zincke in 1873, from a 2 7, 1881, IN THE SIXTY-NINTH YEAR miniature in possession of C. H. Frewen, Esq., by whom in that year the OF HIS AGE. picture was presented to the College. Edward Frewen, co·Sussex, was admitted to a Fellowship at St. John's, March 14th, 1769, to a Senior Fellowship, Oct. 4th, 1787. His vacant Fellowship was filled up March 31St, 1789. (Baker, ed. Ma yor, p. 308, I. 24,
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' 422 Our Po1'lnut Picfures. Our Porfrm t Pictures. 423 p. 330, I. 34, p. 31o, 1. 15). Elected to the Rectory of Frating-cum-Thori� _ g SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL, BART., ton, Essex, Oct. 29th, 1787 (Conclusion Book). Instituted 1788 (Calenda1'). F.R.S., Astronomer, .formerly Fellow. By H. W. A_B. 176g., A.M. 1772, B.D. 1780, D.D. 1792. Died 1832. Said to have been the Tutor of WilbeIforce. pzckersgdl, R.A.
Canvass, 2 ft. I I in. by 2 ft. 3 in. Seated at a table on which left elbow THE HON. CHARLES EWAN LAW, Q.C., LL.D.� rests, an astronomical globe is on the table. Wears M.A. gown, large white Recorder o.f neckcloth, frilled shirt-front. Looks to front, half-length. A splendid London and lvl.P. .fo?' Oambrzage University, 0)' H. W. pzckersgill, R.A. portrait. An engraving by W. Ward from this picture by H. W. Pickersgill was published in 1835. Canvass, z ft. Il � in. by 2 ft. 3 � in. Wears a legal gown, and is holding Sir Jol111 F. W. Herschel, the only son of Sir Frederick William Herschel, a roll of white paper tied with red tape in both h�ds, a broad white neck. Knt., F.R.S. of Slough, Bucks., and Mary Pitt, daughter of Adee Baldwin, cloth is round the throat. Looks slightly towal'ds- right of picture. Half. Esq., of Slough, was born at Slough, March 7th, r792. He was educated at length. Atuibuted to Pickersgill by the late Mr. Robert Roe of Cambridge_ home and at St. John's College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. in 1813 The picture was the gift of Mr. Law to the College (Rev. Dr. G. F. Reyner). with the Honours of Senior Wrangler and first Smith's Prizeman. Admitted A very successful portrait, also by Pickers gill, is in possession of Mr. Law's April 6th, 1813, to a Fellowship at St. John's, he became M.A. 1816, and son the pyesent Lord Ell en borough. It exac�ly corresponds with ours. vacated his Fellowship by marriage, March 3rd, 1829, with Margaret Brodie, The Hon. C. E. Law, second son of Edward Law, first Baron E1Ien daughter of the Rev. Alexander Stewart, D.D. In 182r in conjunction with borough and Anne, daughter of Capt. A. P. Towry, R.N., w1� born 14th Sir James South he formed a Catalogue of Double Stars (Trans. Roy. Soc., June, 1792. Educated at St. John'S College, Cambridge, M.A. 1812, LL.D. 1824), and received the Medal of the Royal Society. After the death of his by King's Mandate 1847. M.P. for Cambyidge University 1835 to 1850. father in 1822 he commenced a series of observations with a 20 foot reflector, He was a Q.C. and RecOl"der of London. He manied Elizabeth Sophia. continued for eight years from 1825, resulting in a series of Catalogues 0./ danghte(of Sir Edward Nightingale, Bart. of Kneesworth, Cambridgeshir� Double and Mu ltiple Stars (See Memoirs, Royal Astronomical Society, and died 13 August, 1850 (Luard's Graduati and Burke's Peerage). 1826 to r836). Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1826. In 1830 he published his excellent Treatise on Soultd, and in 183 I a most GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D., Bz"shoj, jirst of valuable Treatise on Light, in 1836 a less known but useful Treatise on New Zealand, afterwards of Lzchjield, formerly Fellow. Physical Astronomy. These three treatises were contributed to the By George Rzch11'tOnd, R. .A. Encyclopa1dia Me tropolitana. His Discourse 01. Natural Philosophy appeared in '1836. He had proceeded in 1834 to Feldhausen, Cape of Good Canvass, 2ft. II!in. by 2ft. Wears a full black gown, holcls all!
Our P01'tratC Picturt!'s. 42{ Our Pottfait Pictures. 4�3
LADY MARGARET. Foundr ess. UOl'nlcal Society 185 I a nd 1871. Copley :Medal of the Royal SocIety 1848. Panel, 5 ft. 4 in. Painted in wa:x colours on wood. F.R.S. 1849. D.C.L., Oxon., 1855. LL.D., Dub., 1865. His investigation by 4 feet. KneeJfn� the pcrturbations 8 at a table, open service book in front. Figured gilt cloth on table, the s of of Uran1l.s commenced ill 1 43, was communicated to the allle Astronomer Royal ill October, r8('i. In Augus , 1846, P ofes pattern repeated on canopy overhead, and at back of figure. Wears;r t r sor Challis, at Conventual isting of black gown and white coif. Hands "Cambridge Observatory, began the search fOl·the unknown .planet cause of the Dress, cons clas'ped w ri of w n w Disturbances. But for the ant of sufficiently extensive star c1lalts, Neptune ngs on 1st, 3rd and 4th finger. right hand. A. i do at left-hand uppe� ust have been discoveretl corner of picture. Looks to left, tlu:ee-quarter-Iengt!;, m telescopically at Cambridge from ilie approximate i pos tion assigned by our Professor. As is wetI-known., Urban L T This, which Ulere is :teason t.o believe to be the oldest large portrait in eveI ier of France, and Dr. 'Galle of Berlin, were more fottunate in their combined College of our Foundress, was found, in bad state but with no essential part investigation and'searcl1. injured, about 1874', in a st01'e-room of the ThiEd Court. The picture was . In 1852 Professor carefully restored by the late 1\,Ir. Robert Roe. The picture in the Hall Adams constructed New Tables 0.1 the kloon's Parallax g,reatly resembles it. but is probably later in date." in correction of Burckhardt's. In 1853 appeared his important memoir on the Secular 'P"ariation 0.1 t"he kloon's mean motion, in correction of Laplace's JOHN COUCH ADAMS, ESQ., F.R.S., Lowndean Pro theory. Prof. Adams' results have been since con'firmed by M. Delaunay. fessor of Astronomy, formedy Fellow, by T. ,lv:logford. His investigation of the 33 year Oroit of the November Meteors appeared in 1867. Professor en Canvass, 2 ft. II� in by 2 ft. 7� in, Seated in a. cll.air, wears M.A. gown. Adams is now enga.ged upon the improvem t and Simplijicat£on of the yupitor's , Left arm is over back of chair, grasping arm thereof in front, BuIT vest, Theory of Satellites and on the Correction and Extmsion of Gauss' Numerical dark blne necktie, looks to front, half-length. On tile picture ale the words. Theory of the Terrestrial Magnetism. "y. C. A dams, A .M., divi yohannis apud Cantabrigienses socius, 1846. WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, ESQ., M.P., AbolzNonist, Nep tunus CalCIIlo ldonstratus A.D. 184.5." The picture was painted by . �y George Rzehmond. 'lihomas Mogford, and has been engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A. (Publisllecl by J. Hogarth. S, Haymarket, July loth, 1851). Canvass, 35t by 24 inches. Seated in red covered arm-chair, right arm rests Professor Adams was born at Lidcot Farm, LaDeast, near Launceston, cn arm of chair, holds an eye-glass in right hand. Seems to wear two coats. June. 5til, 18L9. He entered St. John!s CoJlege ifl� 183."9. B.A. 1843, with Head inclined over right �houlder, hair tawney grey. Half-length, looks l the Honours of Senior Wrangler and first Smitl�'s Prue. Admitted to- a. forward . Painted by GeO 'ge Richmond, the signature G.R. 1834, is in cernet'. Fellowship at SL John's, April. 4th, �843. the term wherecl expired in 1853- the lower left-haJ:Jd An engraving of a dtJTerel!t picture also by Geo • Tutor at St. John'S. M.A. 1846. Fellow of Pembroke College, 1853. Richmond, may be seen in fVi,ber.fo-rce's Life, 8vo., London, 1835, engraved Lowndean Professor of AstroDolllY and Geometry 1858.. Director of the by J. Jenkins. l of Cambridge Observatory, 1861, May znd. President of tJle Royal Astro- William Wi berforce (B.A. ·r·;.8r, M.A. 17gS) Son RobertWilberforce, u i Merchan� -of H ll, and the daughter of Thomas B rd, Esq., of Ba'rton, Oxford, was bern at Hull, August 24th, 1759. Educated at Hull, Wimbledon ano! • Tbe oldest portrait (j)f Lady. Margaret, in Cambridge, is in the Chapel Pocldington. Entered St. John'S College, October, 1776.. Soon after Christ's College. It is a full-length" standing, with book half open in coming of age he was elect cd M.P. for Hull. M.P. for the County of Yo i s l { hands, done on panel. The inscription on th� frame is of later date rksh re, 1784-1812. E tab ished a society for lle reformation of manners 1 ilie pi.cture, anr! partly res embles the inscription on bel' tomb in iS7, and about this time joined Granville Sharp ana Thom,as Clarkson in minster Abbey. There is good reason to believe that the standing,figu� their efforts to abolish the Slave Trade. III January 1807, his book against ll portrait is the original work of TIarry Maynerde (or Maynert) painter, the Slave Trade appeared and the Abolition Bi passed bofu Houses of Parl for Christ's College, at the expense of Lady Margaret's Executors, and iament. Iu 179,7 he had published his " Practical View of prevailing it were copied, probably by Joh" Wolf!, the two half-length small Religious Systems in this Country." Married Barbara Ann, daughter of vn panel, one of wbich is in the University Library (gift of Dr. John Spooner, Esq., in 1797. M.P. for Bramber, 1812 to 1825. Died July- r in i in Grant, Head :i\1aster of Westminster School, 1581), and tIle othe 29th, 1833, ai�d i.s bur· ed "\Vestmiuster Abbey, where is a sitting figure of hi of the Master's Lodge, s.t. John's. (Sce the Executors ACColmts in m in 11larble, by Joseph. One of his sons was the late Dr. Samuel l e Lzle of Lady Mm'garet, pp. 186, 198, for Maynerde, and pp. 185, Wi b r[orce, Bishop, first 'Gf Oxford and later of ·Winchester. Han� Woif)- Harry Maynert, painter, was one of the witnesses of don, THOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ., M.A., Abolitionist, by Will, r Archives Paul's Cathedral, Lon discove ed ill the of St. lfe most pr nry Room. {!luns Holbein by J- GUJ1dall, London, 1879.> p. 102). It is . dIrect IY I e that all the Kneeling POI'b'aits of Lady Margaret are imitated, Canvass, 3 by 27 inch s. Seated iu chair, spectacles in left hand, pen in I. wsley, !ght, on on of Afr,ica a to indirectly, from the Portrait at the Earl of Derby's seat at Kno Arm table which is a map and letter addre<;�rd �---""""'"'""""'C;:
4z6 Our Portraz& PzCtures. Our Portrate Pz ctures. 41.7
himself at Playford Hall, Ipswich, franked by W. Wilberforce . Th�ee engraved portrait also by George Dawe, [1814] ill which Dr. Parr is repre q arter-Iength_ Painted in 1838, �y Hen Room, being a copy of a sented in a dressing king cap with a � . � large gown and smo long pipe in his hand. plc�re from hfe, by the same artist, wInch w�s done for the Anti-Slavery The portrait in Emmanuel College Hall represents llim in the prime . SocIety. (See Mrs. Clarkson , s letter to the Artlst, Nov. 1St, 1838, I11serted of life, wearing a scarlet gown. The portrait in the Fitzwilliam Museum, is in a copy of Clarkson's Historical Researches given by Mrs. Room to the by J. Lonsdale, and represents him in more advanced age. College Library 0 There in 188 ). is another portrait, by Lane, in the Samuel Parr, son of Samu.el Parr, a Surgeon at HaITow, and Anne, Council Chamber at Wisbeach. 428 Our Portrazt pz'ctures. Our Portrait P�·ctures. 429 Framed Engravings Z1Z the Oo mbina/z"rm Room. LANDSCAPE. (In foreg1'ozmd three jig u1'es, of Shepfterds). DIDO AND AENEAS. (Vzrgzt's Aenezs, Book TV. J. Boydell excudit. #ne 231). The landscape painted by J. Jo nes, the figures by J. Mortimer. The MACBETH. (The T¥z"tch Scene). figures engraved by F. Bartolozd, R.A., the landscape by Wm. Woollett. Painted by F,'ancisco Zuccarelti. Eugraved by Wm. }Voollett.· LANDSCAPE, with three jigures, twodi pp ing a goat. Engraved Portra�'ts, &c. Painted by Claude Lorrai,te, engraved by Wm. Woollett. 1772. J. FISHER, Bzshop of Rochester. CELADON AND AMELIA. (Thomson's Seasons, v. 1191 Folio, engraved by James Houoraken. Taken from Birch's Headr of to 1214). fllustrious Pe,'sons. R. W�'lson pinxit, Londini. Browne aqua forti fecit. Woollett sculpsit. 1776. Th e Ho n. SIR SOULDEN LAWRENCE, Judge of the PHAETON. (Duke of Brzdgewater's Collectt"on). I�zng's Bench. J. Hoppner, R.A. pinxit, C. Turner sculpsit. 180B. Richard Wilson pinxit, I. Boydelt excudit. William Woollett sculpsit. RENE FRANCOIS DE BEAUVAU, Archev�que Of THE FISHERY. (Ships entert'ng a Po rt). I Na rb01tne. Richard Wright pinxit, William Woollett sculpsit. 176B. I:Iyacz"ntltus Rigaud pinxit. P. Brevet sculpsit. 1727. [SHIPPING, near a shoreJ. EVELYN RICHARD SUTTON FALKNER, M.A. of St. C. Lorraine pinxit. Jas. Mason sculpsit. 1772. Jo hn's College. CEYX AND ALCYONE. Mr. Baroer piILXit. H. Dawe sculpsit. Probably engraved by W. Woollett. Dr. Samuel Butler BISHOP OF LICHFIELD. THE LAST SUPPER. Painted by 'j'!tomas Philips, R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cl)usins, Engraved after Leonardo da Vinci. A.R.A. SOLITUDE. SIR WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT, Professor of Painted by Richard Wilson, R.A., engraved by Wm. Woollett and Muszc. Wm. Ellis. 177B. Painted by John Eve,'ett Millais, R.A. Engraved by T. Oldham UNNAMED SUBJECT. (From Tlzomson's Summit', Barlow. A.R.A. The gift of R. Pendleoury, Esq., Fellow. 1876. lznes 516-525). DR. JAMES WOOD, Ma ster and Dean of Ely. Engraver's name not visible, probably by W. Woollett. Painted by J. Ja ckson, R.A. Engraved by E. R. Whitfield, 1B42. THE RURAL COTT. ( Thomson's Wz ntet', lzlzes FRANCISCO DE MONCADA, Ma rchzo Aytonl2. 1034-1045. Antollius Vandyck pinxit. Stepllanus Tol1anelli delineavit. Rapltael G. Sm£th pinxit, Wm. Woollett sculpsit. 1769. Morghen incidit. Rom�. 1793. PRESENTATION OF THE INFANT JESUS IN THE TEMPLE. CHARLES DE LA PORTE, duc de Me lleraye, Pa t1- et With figures of Si111eon, Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth and others. Ma rechalde France, Clzevalz'er des Ord1'es dtt Roy. LANDSCAPE (wz'thjive jig ures, two on a rustz"c bddge ). Rooert Nanteltil SCUlpSlt 1662. Justus pinxit 1648. Annibale Carracci pinxit. W. Woollett sculpsit. • All the foregoing engavings by Woollett and others, and many of the LANDSCAPE. (In Pazntet', foreground, a Poet, following engraved portraits were bequeathed by the Rev. Christopher Muszclcm). Stannard, Rector of Great Snoring.cum-Thursford, NorJolk, and were I. Boydell sculpsit. accepted by the College, Oct. 15th, IB51. (Collclusio1t Book). 430 Our Portrm't Pictures. Ottr Podrm't P�·ctztres. 431 CAR. MAURIT. LE TELLIER, Arch. coad. Rlzemensi's, wear a brown fur cloak with white fur cape. Young looking face, looks to Cape/Ice Reg. Prcefect. right of picture. Rather more than half-length. Another picture in the Master's Lodge represents him with the gold chain R. Nanteuil ad vivum pingebat et sculpebat, 1670. which he would wear when Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. NATALIS DE BOULTZ, regz a sanctzo consz'lz'z'set suprem2.' Opposite p. 110 of the Ch roniea Se 1-ies at the end of Dugdale's Origines ordznz'sSe nator. Judiciales, 2nd Ed. 1671, is a fine line engraving by Wm,eslaus flollar 166[, Nanteuil ad vivum pingebat et sculpebat, 1671. size, 9f by 7! inches, inscribed thus :-"Vera effigies Rober! Heath equitis Aurati primo Capitalis Justiciarii de Banco, deinde ad placita Coram Rege '" PIERRE DU CAMBOUT Cardinal de Coz'slzn, (regi ab tenenda assignati." eleemosynz's pn11Zus Aurelz'anmszum Ep iscop us desz'g Robert Heath, son of Robert Heath of Brasted, Kent, and J ane daughter natus). of Nicholas Prior, was born May 20th, 1575. Educated at Tunbridge School, Nanteuil ad vivum faciebat 1658. and for three years at St. john's College. Admitted to Clifford's Inn and thence to the Inner Temple, when he was called to the Bar in 1603. Accord Le Marechal D'HARCOUR. ing to Dugdale (Origines pp. 167, 171), he was a Reader of the Inner N. Mignard Aveni pinxit. Antonius ilfasS01t sculpsit 1667. Temple in 1619, and Treasurer of the Inner Temple 1625. He had been elected Recorder of London, Nov. 10th, 1618, and IJominated Solicitor MOISE (With the two tables of the Law). . General Jan. 22nd, 1621, when he resigned the Recordership and became Peint par Phillipe de Champagne. Grave par R. Ncl;tteut'l et le M.P. for the City of London in 1621. Knighted by James I. Promoted by Chevalier Edelinek, 1699. Charles I. to be Attorney General, Oct. 31St, 1625. Constituted Chief IOANNES ROFFENSIS. Justice of the Common Pleas, Oct. 31st, 1631. Removed Sept. 14th, 1634- Resumed practice as Junior Serjeant. Became King's Serjeant Oct. 12th, 1636. Size, 5 in. by 4� in. Ancient line engraving. Taken in old age. In Constituted a Justice of the King's Bench Jan. 23rd, 1640-1, and appointed surplice under fur gown without sleeves. Square cap. Strongly lined Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries .May 23rd, 1641. Retired with featnres. Looks to l'ight. the King to York. D.C.L. of Oxford 164�- Feb. 7th, and appointed by the Th e Rt. Rev. Father Z1Z God, JOHN FISHER, Bz'shop 0/ King Chief Justice of the King's Bench at Oxford, 1643, July 4th. Im Rochester. peached by the Commons in 1644 ; his whole estate was sequestered 1648. Sir Robert Heath had retired to France 1646. He died at Calais August 30th, This is the frontispiece of a I2mo. book Life0./ F isher, by Thomas Bayly, 1649, and is buried under a stately monument in Brasted Church. While D.D., London 1655. yet a student of law he married Margaret, daughter of John Miller. (For LADY MARGARET. Autlzon·ties, see E. Foss, Judgp.s 0./Engl and, London, 1870). Duplicate engravings from the Eagle College Magazine. ALEXANDER MORUS, Protestant Preaclzer at the Hague. Canvass, 29 by 24 inches. At the right hand top corner of the picture are Pt'ctures tn the Library. the words"Anno Dni. 1653, Aetat. 36." Wears a black gown, own flowing hair, simple white collar, white wristbands partly plaited and turned over H SIR ROBERT EATH, KNT., Chief Justice of the sleeves. The right hand holds corner of a large printed Greek Testament Common Pleas. open at St. John's GospeL Oval face, sharp chin, very small moustache with hair under lower lip. Canvass, about 4 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 6 in. The words " Justice Heath" are at Alexandre More was a French protestant preacher and professor in the back of picture. Seated with right arm on table, wears red a judge's wig, poet. He was born at Castres in gown with white tippet, laced neck-cloth, and plaited linen wristbands. Switzerland and Holland, and a Latin and principal of the College of The tippet seems bordered with a red band near the edge. Appears also to France, in 1616. His father was a Scotsman, Calvinists in that City. More was sent to Geneva, where he became Professor of Greek and Theology. Saumaise invited him to Holland, where he was first • This portrait is not named, but has been indentifiedby comparing No. 267 appointed Professor of Theology at Middleburgh, and then of History at Am with No. 241 of the Fitzwilliam Museum Collection of Nanteuil's portrait sterdam. In 1655 he went to Italy, and for his Latin poem on tlle Defeat of engravings. No. 267 is identical with ours, and is dated 1658. All the Turkish Fleet, received the gold chainof the Venetian Republic. He after lun Nanteuil's engravings are described by Robt. Dumemil in his book Le pet'nlfl wards became a celebrated Preacher at Charenton in France. (Encyc. Pe rt gravure Frall�ais, Tome IV. see pp. 85, 86. No. 241 is dated 1666. si •. Edinburgh 1816). We have two of More's works in the College Library, Our Portrat'tPi ctures. -t3� Our Po rtrait Pktufes. 433 picture, though probably taken at an earlier age_ The author's name they are the gift of Bishop Gunning who frequently entertained t'orelgners at this will be found on an engraving opposite page 30. He died 1676, and is the Lodge when Master (Mayor's tlotes to Baker's Tlistory, p. 652, I. 42) . described in Carter's Histo,y of the Un iversity m,d Colleges of Cambridge, The titles are ([) Fides Publica CQntla Calmnnias Miltoni, Hag::e Comiturn, London 1 753, p. 257, as "Edward Benlowes, of Brent in Essex, Esq. : an 1654, (2) Qutedamloca novi fl:ederis notte, LOndon [66[. In Samuel Pepysl ingenious sacred poet." He was a Fellow-Commoner of St. John's, and gave Coltect,'on of Engraved Fortt"aits, Vol. Ill., 8[6, preserved in the Library I. I £50 worth of Books to the Library A.D. 163 An inscription with Epigram at Magdalene College, is a portrait of Alexander Morus inscribed ' Eloquent is in the book Gg. 5, 20. His name occurs in Pope's Dunciad Ill. 2I. by means of which our picture has been identified. The resemblance is (Prof. J. E. B. Mayor). very striking. There is also in the Pepysian Library a book in French entitled FragmenJ des Sermtns de Mo nsieur Mo rus avtc ses demieres Juure.r. WILLIAM BENDLOWES, Serfeant at Law.* d la Haye, chez Abraham Troyel, mat'Chand libraire 1685. From pp. 415. Canvass, about 29 by 24 inches. Arms at left hand top corner. The words sqq, it appears that A. More died Sept. 28th, 1670 aged 54 years, at Paris. "Serjeant Benlowes, 1564 " at the back. "Serjeant Belllowes, Solus ad PORTRAIT (not certaz'nly known) Olenc. legem serviens, ::et, sure 49, et sui gradus, An. Dom. 1564, with arms, �-leugth " says [R.M.]. Heavy red gown and cape, white skull cap, holds Oval, about 28 by 24 inches. Black gown, white bands, light brown flowing hair, double chin, half-length, looks to right of picture. The words "Left a roll of paper in both hands, rings on third finger of the left hand. Half length, lool 434 Our Po rtrat't PzCtures. Our Portraze Pictu1'es. 43 5 1617, left England on a visit to Spain, July, 1618, canvass portraits of a Lord 0/ the Ma nor 0/ Ramerz"ck returned, November, 1619, was finally recalled, May, and his Lady, brought from our farm at Ramerick . 162:1. (See S. R. Gardiner's 'Prz?zce Charles and th e There is also a vigorous sketch on a wood panel of the Sp anz'slz Ma rriage,' London, 1869. Vol. i., pp. 9, 69, Th ree Wz 'tches �'n Macbeth done with a hot iron by 135, 301 ; vol. ii., p. 220.) There is a portrait of 'Black Stanley' fo rmerly Bishop of Norwich and father Gondomar, �-size, by C. J anssen, at Hatfield House. of Dean A. P. Stanley. Our authority is the late Pro He fessor Adam Sedgwick. is represented with a black velvet dress, pointed hat, sword and gold chain. In the Lecture Room, Th z'rd Court, are eight portraits on canvass, subjects unknown, only one of which is in In the account of the Queen Henrietta Maria, the good condition. Among them poss ibly may be the name of her mother is incorrectly given, it should be missing one of Edmund WaIler, M.D. Marie de Medicis. In a set 0/ rooms, Th ird Court F, first floor, are nine This notice of our pictures must not be concluded fine engravings after the Raphael Cartoons in/he Col without the expression of the Author's grateful acknow lection of Her Majesty the Queen. These Engravmgs ledgements fo r the kind assistance given in answer to his are in good gilt frames, and are supposed to have been inquiries by the late Master, the Rev. Dr., Bateson, the left in College by a Fellow Commoner. Rev. Dr. Wood, Presz'de nt, the Rev. J. E. B. Mayor, In the Ha ll-Butler's Room is a curious Kitchen Piece Professor 0/ Latzn, the Rev. P. H. Mason, Sem'or Dean, the with the arms of Benlowes and the date 163 1 on the Rev. H. Russell, Junior Bursar, and other Fellows ofthe frame; the letters E.B. formerly on the frame have been College. Similar assistance was also rendered by the obliterated. Rt. Hon. the Marquis of Salisbury, the Countess of It represents a Knight and a fishwife standing by' a table on which are Shrewsbury, Lord Ellenborough, the Very Rev. the fish of all kinds and cooking vessels, They seem to be bargaining, To the Dean of Chester, the Hon. and Rev. W. Ta1bot, Thomas right is a fire-placewith a servant watching a pot boiling. In the centre of the back ground, behind open curtains, three persons are seated at table. Hughes Esquire, of Chester, F.S.A., the Rev. Dr. A man servant loops up the hangings of the aperture or doorway, and a Rp.yner, the Rev. S. Earnshaw, the Rev. H. H. maid is bringing cups on a salver. A small hanging picture is shewn to the Hughes, the Rev. H. R. Bailey, the Rev. J. B. James, left, a moveable cupboard to the right. the Rev. W. Selwyn, the Rev. Philip S. Smith, of St. In the Dyce Collection at the South Kensington Augustine's College, Canterbury, the Rev. T. K. Museum there is a portrait of Dr. Richard Bentley, Cheyne, of BaIliol College, Oxford, H. Bradshaw, Esq., copied by R. W. Bass, after Sir J. Thornhill. We of King's College, Un iverst'ty Lzoran'a n, H. T. Francis, mention this on account of its close resemblance to the Esq., of Caius College, Professor Colvin, F. Pattrick, portrait in the College Hall. The still finer original, Esq., of Magdalene College, the Rev. J. W. Cartmell, from which both these were copied, is in the Dining of Christ's College, R. T. Caldwell, Esq., of Corpus Room of the Master's Lodge, Trinity College. Christi College, and by the Curators of the Engraved , With reference to our portrait of Count Gondomar Prints in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and in we may add to the previous statement that his fu ll the British Museum, London. name should be given as Dzego Sannzento de Acuna. He came to England as Ambassador from Spain about A. FREEMAN. August, 1613, was created Count of Gondomar, April, Simplex Mu ndt'tz"z's. 437 What should her dress be ? Not gaudy and vain, But unaffectedly pretty and plain ; She should remember these few simple words " Fine fe athers flourish on fo olish young birds." Where should a maiden be ? Home is the place SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS Which a fair maid is most fitted to grace ; (OR, WHAT SHOULD A MAIDEN BE ?). There should she turn, like a bird to the nest, There should a maiden be, blessing and blest. [The fo llowing lines were written by request, to be read at a Me eting of the " Girls' Friendly Socz"ery."-ED.J. There should she dwell as the handmaid of God, And if He bid her ' pass under the rod,' WHAT should a maiden be ? Pure as the rill, Let her each murmur repining suppress, Ere it has left its first home in the hill ; Knowing He chasteneth that He may bless. Thinking no evil, suspecting no guile, ( Cherishing nought that can harm or defile. But if earth's blessings each day He renew, What should a maiden be ? Honest and true, Let her give glory where glory is due ; • Giving to God and to neighbour their due ; Deem every blessing a gift from above, Modest and merciful, simple and neat, Given and designed for a purpose of love. Clad in the white robe of innocence sweet. What will her future be ? If she become What should a maiden be ? She should be loath Matron and mother, may God bless her home ! Lightly to give or receive loving troth ; God to the matron all blessings will give, But when her fa ith is once plighted, till breath If as God's maiden the young maiden live. Leave her, her love should be stronger than death. What will her fu ture be ? If she should die, What should a maiden be ? Merry, wh ene'er Lightly the earth on her ashes will lie ; Merriment comes with a natural a.ir ; Softly her body will sleep 'neath the sod, But let not mirth be an every-day guest, While her pure spirit is' safe with her God. Quietness sits on a maiden the best. " ARCULUS." Like a fa ir lily, sequestered and meek, She should be sought fo r, not others should seek ; But, when the wild winds of trouble arise, She should be calm and courageous and wise. What should her words be ? Her words should be fe w, Honest and genuine, tender and true ; Words that o'erflow from a pure heart within, Guiltless of folly, untainted by sin. VOL. XI. z �� The Use and Abuse of Slang. 439 Lingua Franca, a dialect spoken in some of the Mediterranean ports. iark, in the sense of sport, and bone (to steal) are Early English words ; duds, galore, &c. are Gaelic ; vamoose, Spanish. Cant, fudge , burk, and a fe w others are derived from proper names. Many curious derivations are given in the "Slang Dictionary," which has much interesting information THE USE AND ABUSE OF SLANG. on the subject. A number of words and phrases now discarded in �HIS subject may appear at the first glance literature can boast an irreproachable pedigree and � not a very reputable or dignified one, but history, having at one time been employed by the • I hope to shew that it is of considerable best authors. In Shakspeare, fo r instance, we have importance to all who care for the purity of the ) the fo llowing : English language, and that it lies at least on the " Ram thou thy fruitful tidings in mine ears." border-land of literature. To define slang would be , Ant. and Cleo. no easy task, the term is indeed used rather loosely. Roughly, it may be said to comprise all those words "P£lch me in the mire."-Tempest. and phrases employed in fa miliar conversation, but " Roaming clean through the bonds of Asia."-Oom. of Erro rs . not recognised in the standard literature of the country. " I cannot tell what the dickens his name is." We shall find it convenient, however, to include, under Me rry Wz ves of Wi ndsor. the same name, certain peculiarities to which there is Many other examples suggest themselves, among a noticeable tendency, at least, in the more ephemeral which we may mention )lush (that is, having plenty portion of modern literature. of money), lift and przg, both meaning to steal, folly, Slang is no modern invention. In fact, it seems saucy, bud ge, dodge, and tyke. All these words have so natural an outcome of an artificial state of society lost caste since Shakspeare's time. , that it is not surprising to find it of great antiquity. A large class of words such as whz'z, fizz, bang, Accordingly we recognise it in the comedies of both crunch, &c. are obviously imitative. Descriptive words Greek and Roman writers, not to mention more serious of this kind have been sanctioned by many great works. authors, from Homer downwards, and the use of The constituents y of English slang are of a ver them within reasonable limits adds fo rce to a heterogeneous nature. the All the languages of description either in conversation or writing. Besides civilised world have been n. laid under contributio peculiar words, slang comprises new applications of Examples might be he multiplied indefinitely. T words, odd phrases, fanciful metaphors, unusual con classical origin of the words mob, tog, chum, and gy p structions, and countless strange tricks of language is generally ; admitted. Bosh and chouse are Turkish which cannot be classed under any head. Metaphors mull (to spoil), bamboozl ds, e, pal, and many other w or are drawn from all manner of professions and including slang rgot itself, are Gipsy. The French a occupations ; from the workshop, as for example, the has furnished some the of our slang, and so has expressions 'a screw loose,' and 'a close shave' ; from Z2 440 Th e Us e and A buse of Slang. Th e Us e and Abuse of Slang. 44 1 the billiard field, the street, the stage, the drawing-room ; slang table, as {to put szde on' ; the hunting-field, , in art, at the bar, even in the pulpit. It as to {come a cropper' ; the card-table, as {a regular in trade that our slang comprises a large trump,' and { left in the lurch' ; from nautical life, as cannot be denied happy similes, and successful {to raise the wind,' and • the cut of his jib'. I mention number of apt metaphors, whose expressiveness is these only to shew from what diverse sources the strokes of {word-painting,' materials of our slang have been collected. proved by their untranslatability into the English of Many words and phrases now familiarly employed the lexicographers. Some of the best slang expres were originally provincialisms. But of late years sions ultimately work their way into the recognised bet, vagabond, jilclz, &c. one of the most copious fountains of slang has been tongue. Words like queer, cheat, apprentice Young America. We are in fact deluged by these were once slang. Having " served their y, they efforts of our Trans-Atlantic friends to improve upon ship," as it has been termed, in that capacit This process the language of the mother-country. They vary, of have been promoted and duly authorised. course, from ingenious and expressive turns of of {natural selection ' is the way in which the language language to phrases suggesting only thJ most grows to meet growing requirements. Until civili r vulgar ideas. They include a number of barbarisms, sation comes to a stand-still, it is impossible fo art of against which British taste has hitherto taken its language to become stationary. But the is not stand, and I hope it will be a long time before inventing or selecting really expressive slang the skill such words as cablegram, walkz"st, swz1nmzst and the possessed by everyone. Few can use it with like become naturalised in this country. and effect of Ingoldsby or Tom Hoo�, and the great it merely fo r The practical side of our subject lies in the con majority of aspirants have recourse to of humour to sideration of how far the use of slang may be justified, singularity, to give a cheap semblance with various in conversation and also in writing. It may perhaps their talk, or to parade their familiarity It becomes every lover be urged by some that since the object of speech phases of life and manners. it jealously against is to express our thoughts to others, that fo rm of of the Queen's English to guard words is the best which most fu lly and precisely encroachments of this kind. the more open and conveys our meaning, whether it be sanctioned by Any detailed consideration of of the present day is general usage or not. But this broad view of the obvious fo rms of the slang certain peculiarities question is a very superficial one. Among people unnecessary, but I shall specify rked tendency, and with any claims to culture, to give pleasure to the of speech to which there is a ma under the head ear and mind of the hearer or reader often becomes which may reasonably be included we have used an aim scarcely less important than to render our of slang in the wider sens� in which is one of these ideas with precision. So we see that it is impossible it. The needless use of technicalities new and uncouth to lay down a clear rule on the point at issue. It tendencies. It is objectionable when notice, but it is more is well to realise at the outset that the use of slang words are thus thrust into our words are saddled with is absolutely universal. Those who would confront objectionable when good old the sort of slang towards this assertion with an indignant denial are frequently strange meanings. This is and divines evince a among the most hardened offenders. We have the which our lawyers, politicians, facilities for those strokes of slang of the university, the school, the turf, the cricket- leaning ; it affords such �� use oj Slang. 442 Th e Us e and Abuse ofSla ng. The Use and Ab 443 sophistry which logicians call 'Ignoratio Elenchi ' and But perhaps the worst offence against good taste idioms into the 'Petitio Principii,' that it is of the greatest use to all is the introduction of fo reign English " "cela va sans dzre" whose position involves them in disputes and arguments. language. When a man says There are many words, such as loyal, orthodox, consti instead of "that's taken fo r granted" we think he a fe w tutional, sensational, (Esthetic, which a plain man is wishes to shew us his acquaintance with words now almost afraid or ashamed to use. Slang is in of French ; but when he says "that goes without a sense the technical language of common life, but saying" we can only conclude that he wishes to to to intrude upon it the technical terms of lawyers and display his French, but dare not trust himself theologians is an unpardonable affront to slang itself. pronounce it. Still such a man may deserve our Next we may notice the excessive use of pointless pity ; but he who uses such expressions as "apropos quotations or weak and conventional phraseology. of boots" or "let us return to our muttons" rouses To call a fire "the devouring element," or a dinner more violent emotions. table "the festive board," or to describe a( crowd Here a remark may be necessary to guard against as "a sea of fa ces," may have been brilliant ideas misapprehension. We are all liable to let JaIl in the brain of the man who first used those expres occasional phrases such as those I have been criti sions, but now they seem to be a little thread-bare. cising, and the offence, if it is one, is very ven,ial. The chief offenders in this way are those ingenious What I think we should discourage is the deliberate newspaper writers generally called "penny-a-liners," and habz'tual employment of such expressions, and and that well-known so�al monster the "comic man," especially the stereotyping of them in print. Sum slang, who is permitted to run at large in our midst. It is true marily, the question of how far we may use that the latter often modifies and embellishes the like most other questions, has two sides, and it expressions he quotes, but the alteration is not always devolves upon individual taste to balance them. Our one hand to fo r the better. He may, for instance, describe the part in the matter seems to be on the the conflagration we have referred to as "the devouring recognise the natural and inevitable growth of to preserve elephant," but this is a questionable improvement. language, and on the other to do our best is one Unnecessary quotations from fo reign tongues are intact that "well of English undefiled" which ers have another modern development of slang. There are of the noblest inheritances that our fath persons who habitually interlard their conversation left us. A. H. or writing with such expressions as mauvazse honte, sang jr oz'd, 'on the tajns,' '&c., all of which have adequate equivalents in English and some of which belong only to that dialect of French which Chaucer calls the "scole of Stratford atte Bowe." If the language which Sha kspeare fo und sufficient, does not satisfy these people, it must be because they are very imperfectly acquainted with it. The literary disease I am speaking of has been well burlesqued by Mark Twain in his "Tramp Abroad." A SONG. COMMEMORATION SERMON. I. (Printed by request.) THE morning sun is in the sky, rThe Commemoration Sermon on the Sixth of May, 1881, was preached Its beams are dancing on the stream, by the Reverend Charles Pritcharcl, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., formerly a I watch the daisies floating by, Fellow of the College, and now Savilian Professor of Astronomy in the University of Oxford.] Fall'n emblems of a May-day dream. 'Tis childhood, with its fleeting joys, { EPHESIA NS 4, Il, &rc. The grace and sparkling flow of youth, And he gave some, apostles ; and some, prophets ; and some, evangelists ; Before the world's rude touch destroys and some, pastors and teachers ; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work The bloom of Purity and Truth. of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ ; till we all come, in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a lI. perfect man, and the measure of the statUl'e of the fulness ctfChrist. 'HE circumstances of to-day's anniversary can The noontide sun is shinin.g now, scarcely fail to carry our thoughts in thankful Gilding the leaves of velvet green, ness back through well nigh fo ur hundred years, And warming with its mellow glow and onwards in hope fo r centuries as yet unknown. The bursting blossoms in the dene. Befo re the mind's eye there passes a long unbroken An emblem this of manhood's power, succession of fa mous men ; statesmen and divines ; When mind and soul, transfused with thought, and philosophers ; each Reap by reflexion every hour lawyers and physicians ; poets whom, according to his measure, has left his mark The fruit of lessons dearly bought. of on the progress of the arts, on the appliances or on And Ill. the manners of human life and of society. observe, these all owed their means of culture primarily The dial marks another day : to the prescient munificence of our Foundress, and to The blood-red tints upon the meres the fidelity with wh4;h able men have successively Resolve into a sombre grey, executed her behests. Of many of these famous men, And dewdrops rise like welling tears. it may be safely affirmed, that .if it were possible to 'Tis age ; eternity must pave efface their memories and their deeds, the blank could The lonesome path that leads us home, be traced, and would be felt by us in some art, or The life-shade, Death, falls on the Grave, be 1!.'� mode of social life, at this moment. And this, And angel-voices whisper "Come !" one College it observed, is the undeniable result of this character are D. C. F. in this one University. Yet of a like --...... 446 Commemoratz"on Sermon. Commemoratzon Sermon. 447 the results also of not a few similar institutions in than these suggested conjointly by the ceremonial this place j and of others not a whit behind the chiefe st of to-day, and by the Apostle's language, which I of our own in the sister University. Surely, then, We have quoted fo r our text. For if we adopt St. Paul's may reasonably impute some of the happier and more estimate of Providence, then those worthies of the unique phases of English life and of English insti past, the records of whose lives at this moment crowd tutions to the existence of corporations such as ours, upon our memories, were Gift s-gifts from the great unique as they certainly are amidst all the multifarious Head of the Church, bestowed upon Christian society, associations of Europe. to serve as guides and examples for the onward Take your stand on the rising ground in the neigh progress both of individuals, and of the community, bourhood of Mading1ey, now so freshly consecrated towards their perfection. The endowments of these in our memories, and there contemplate the fair lights of the world, that is, were not the mere necessary spectacle which in one direction bounds your view. outcome of the accidental environments of the men Towers, and pinnacles, and storied roofs rise pp in and of their times, but the men themselves were gzven graceful profusion, the like of which it would be of God j given fo r the service of G0d's family on earth, elsewhere difficult to find, excepting as it is my lot and they were endowed with special gifts fo r special and my privilege daily to see in the sister University. ends. It was our Lord and Saviour, Christ, who gave But it is not in these tokens of architectural genius and who gives them : aiJ7'o> lOCiJ/cfV is the language and munificent benefactions that is to be found the of St. Paul. This is the man ifest doctrine of the true source of the fascination of the scene. The Apostle in our text, and I stop not now to discuss enchantment comes from the memories of famous men, the knotty and metaphysical points herein involved who, gifted with the highest and brightest types of of responsibility and free-will. cultivated intellect, through centuries have given life But if anyone is disposed to doubt the special gifts and animation to those material fabrics which so of individual endowment, and of the Providential allot delight and instruct the eye. And then, around all ment of this condition or that, then let him turn aside, this fair scene, so suggestive of mental energy and and, in quietness, let him look in the history of his social progress, there seems to hang an atmosphere own heart. How few of us have in reality chosen of repose and of dignified prosperity. It may well our habitations and our careers in li fe by our own remind us in this place of ancient learning, of that free choice ! What apparently trivial circumstances, spectacle of national magnificence, wherewith the fo r I will not call them accidents, have placed us Athenian orator and statesman sought to allure his here or there ! Take, for instance, the case of our countrymen away fr om mere passive admiration, and late revered Master. If any man was a great gift animate them into practical act : lp 'YfP 8fWll-fVOt.* The to his College fr om the Disposer of all things, it was perceptions must be dull, and the emotions cold, if he. And yet I am assured by an. old schoolfellow at the sight of all this excessive grandeur it be easy that his coming to Cambridge was no immediate or to repress the struggle ready to break forth into a original act of his own. His own aim in early youth shout of joy, and thanksgiving, and hope. was a scholarship in Oxford. The Head Master of But there are higher and more salutary thoughts his School (the late Dr. Butler) sent him thither in ' confidence of success, because an offer was made by .. Thuc. n. 43. - -. - _ ...... , L""�{,)f"'"'t:- 4 8 Commemorait'on Sermon. Cmnmemoratz'rJ1Z Sermon. 4 449 certain College authorities in the sister University, the Ireland of 188r, might possibly supply the answer. to regard the youthfulness of a candidate as an Happily there is a reverse to the question, and it is element of advantage in the competition. Yet he this : " Can corporate societies acquire habits of wisdom missed his aim, and, strange to say, his youthfulness and virtue 1" For my own part I think they can ; was urged against him, and he was advised to return and pretty much in the same way as that in which back to his school. Those of us who knew the dis the habits of individuals are formed ; and such, I position of Dr. Bateson, and his clear love of justice, truly believe, was the happy condition of the governing can well imagine the fo rcible expostulation with which body of this great society at the time when it was he received so unexpected an intimation. Our College, my privilege to be placed under its direction. I doubt then, may safely apply to our late Master, St. Paul's not of its continuance still. Speaking, however, of language, aUTO') gOwICev. For a moment also recall half-a-century ago, the traditionary spirit of the College to your recollection how Mr. Carlyle sought for the was habitually exhibited in a fixed intention and a astronomership at Edinburgh with all his might, and J constant endeavour to hold out the right hand of with his own fu ll expectation of success. His actual benevolent aid, to such poor but truly deserving path was, as we know, in wisdom, alloted to him in students, as were fo und in their society. I never quite another direction ; and, instead of probably an heard of an instance when a young man of true indifferentastronomer, he became the undaunted cham intellectual promise, and of virtuous character, was pion in his day of energy and truth. So true it is, allowed to leave the College, fo r want of the necessary that most of us must be constrained to adopt the material means of support. I could enumerate three language of the patriarch Joseph, and say with him, or fo ur students among my contemporaries who, "So, now, it was not your will, nor my own, that sent within my own knowledge, derived their whole pecu me here, but God sent me hither to preserve lif e." niary means from the generous ·yet always discrimi Surely, my friends, thoughts and convictions of this nating aid afforded by the College. These young kind indicate the true source and great dignity of meritorious students surely, were as St. Paul describes : our offices, as tutors, and governors, and professors ; that is, they were Christ's gifts to the great society for to ourselves, if to any men, apply the Apostle's of Christians ; by you they were faithfully nurtured, wor d s: TaU')' DE'1' ' 7rp0't''Y}Ta'),"" TaU,)' De'1' ' 7rO£p,Eva'),, TaU,)'� Offl and with many others they have gone forth from o£oaCTIGa�ou') aUTO,) iiowIGev. among you, some as prophets of the knowledge of And now let us turn to another thought, not alien God in Nature ; some as evangelists ; and some, as to that which has so far occupied our attention. I pastors and teachers, in the varied occupations of turn, that is, from the Divine gift to the tra,ditionary human society, fo r the edification of their brethren spirit in which the gift has hitherto been here, in in the world. this College, received and administered. Most of you Among such gifts from God to this College and may remember that Bishop Butler, in one of his usual to Society, I will select two in particular ; and that, evening walks up and down the garden of his palace, for a purpose which you will soon discern. The put the apparently strange question to his chaplain, names of Henry Kirke White, and of Henry Martyn, whether he thought that nations could grow mad. The are still familiar within this College ; their memories, reply is not recorded ; but the France of 1797, and and. their example will endure with the endurance 45 0 Comnzemoraiton Sermon. Co77tmenzoratzon Sermon. 45 1 Forming my judgment now with the advan of our language. The one was the son of a poor -tages of the experience of a long life, I am tradesman in Nottingham ; the other was the son of a Cornish miner living at Truro.'" As poor but sure that all that could be done for me and for meritorious students your predecessors received them my contemporaries, in the way of personal en in the first decades of this century, in a spirit of couragement, wise counsel, and the most splendid benevolence, and in accordance with your old traditions, tuition, was in that day effected by these excellent and the intention of our fond Foundress. The name men. The example also of their daily lives before of their College Tutor, Thomas Catton, and the record us was that which might be expected fr om devoted of his considerate kindness and his fostering care but unobtrusive Christians. As for the College behind will worthily endure alongside of their own touching them, which they represented, I (like others) soon histories. It was the record of Mr. Catton's goodness became the glad recipient of its bounty ; and even as the official representative of the College to these more was offered than the actual need required. poor but eminent young students, that fired my y�uthful But something more valuable than material aid enthusiasm, that I might walk where Kirke White to the needy but promising student, was provided by and Henry Martyn had walked, and might become the College in those days. The curriculum of study acquainted with that kind and loyal man, and with was broad ; we were educated 'all round ' as it were, the noble institution which had so befriended them. and if we looked to the College for income and aid, My friends, if I introduce the personal element, we were expected to conform to the course prescribed pardon the speaker and regard him solely as the to us. That course of study was strictly methodical ; mouthpiece of a hundred others who have shared it had been long considered, and wisely planned ; from our College a like generous experience to his own. and, as I have already said, the tuition was magni On my arrival here, Mr. Catton had become an old ficent. The result of all this happy arrangement was man, and had retired fr om tuition. But I found the shewn in the successfu l nurture of many great men ; Tutors of the College still representing the same great as statesmen, great as lawyers, great as divines. traditions of which I had read in the memoirs of Specially they had educated John Herschel, who Kirke White and of Henry Martyn. Now, they are, entering the College, as he told me himself, a mere all but one of them, gone to the account of their novice in mathematical learning, left it on resigning stewardship of God's gifts ; but their memories still his fellowship, one of the most profound and ac cling to me, with a veneration and affectionate respect.t complished philosophers of modern times : he was peculiarly the product of the College training, • The Bishop of Truro desires to erect in his contemplated Cathedral literature, and a great master in that city such a memorial of this most eminent Missionary as shall cultivated in ancient be of an appropriate and practically serviceable character. Funds are of the English language. I regard it as a significant needed for the purpose ; and contributions will be gladly received by the the solace of his old age was the translation fact, that . Rev. G. H. Whitakel', Truro. of the Iliad into English verse. May here have the privilege of recording the names of Richard t I lips on the Gwatkin, Charles Jeffreys, Watkin Maddy ? Mr. Hughes and Dr. Hyrners I speak warmly and without faltering are still preserved to their duties as clergymen. Mr. J effreys, the clearest· subject of this broad and varied culture, because headed mathematician I have ever met with, was the private tutor of almost every day of my life, as a University Professor, brity of Mr. Hopkins ; this I think helps to explain one cause of the cele conscious of the inestimable benefit of the plan the latter. I am -, ' _.. '- ...... -e:. 45 2 CommemoraHon Sermon. Commemorait"on Sermon. 453 of education adopted by the College in those days. Surely that motto expresses a principle at all times Among other subjects, neither classical nor mathe wise and essential : possibly it implies a law of social matical, the College authorities made it essential for its improvement : nevertheless, the fo rward movements to highest grade of students to become well acquainted with be salutary, must be deliberate. He that maketh haste Butler's Analogy. I, fo r one, was encouraged to learn shall fa ll into a snare. But, whatever course of action it by rote ; and I soon learned also to regard both the you may find it wise to adopt, I am sure you will not book and its author, with something akin to reverence willingly fo rsake the old traditions of the ancient house, and affection. Its suggestiveness, through many years, but will continue to accord your special aid and roused my curiosity ; its argument, for the most part, encouragement to those poor but gifted young men, satisfied my reason. Since then, it and the Bible, who, from time to time, may be entrusted to your have been the anchor of my life amidst the floods nurture as themselves Divine gifts to you fo r the of a free and unbounded enquiry, and the many phases " advancement of the best interests of the great Chris of scientific enlightenment, which fo rm the unavoidable tian community ; never forgetting the Apostle's remark environment of our times : at once our trial, and, I aUToc; .€oCrJ,,€v. So, through you, their poverty shall hesitate not to say, our hope. What I acquired here, make many rich. I have elsewhere attempted to dispense to others. I have said but little to-day regarding our late most 0; Xa/-llTraOta €XOVTI!C; l,taowuouuw aXX�i\.otc;. valued Master, much as he has been in your thoughts I have ventured to speak thus strongly on the . and mine : if I had said more I could only have repeated subject of the old College curriculum, because the what it was my duty and my privilege to say, a very resulting conviction from my own experience, is few Sundays ago, in St. Mary's pulpit.'" And, as for adverse to the contraction of the course of study into our new Master, to him let us all accord the right hand specialities selected either by the mere taste or by the of a hearty fe lluwship and respect ; and, better than apparent material interests (often ephemeral) of the that, let us pray to Him who giveth to all men liberally, young student ; and, that too, at a period of life, before and upbraideth not, that he may be endowed with he has acquired a proper amount of intellectual discipline the spirit of wisdom, and of counsel, and of under and of general information. standing, and of a sound mind : yes, and if so it I am far from unaware of the difficult circumstances please Him, with abundant prosperity in life. And in which you are placed by the peculiar and predom as fo r ourselves, as members of this noble College, inant taste of the age in which your lot is cast. You let us adopt that portion of the old form of the live in times of transition, and you have to combine Bidding Prayer, which somehow has dropt out of the tried experience of the old, with the always attractive, the Cambridge text ; and so let us pray, "that in this, and often the just claims of the new. All wisdom is and in all other places, more immediately set apart not confined to the antique, neither is all gold in modern for God's honour and service, true religion and useful glitter. There is a phrase in the Old Testament, much learning, may fo r ever flourish and abound." quoted, though for another purpose, by one of the greatest of the many great Divines educated within our College, and it is this : "Speak unto the children of .. See p" 474 of this number. Israel that they go forward." VOL. XI. AA - '-"-. - "'" (QV (�"E. Ej u/um. In 455 acta juvent variis memorantes tempora ludis : �I����.����� praesidet his et quondam et nunc fo rtissimus ICtus,2 murice bis tinctus, salicis palmaeque abiegnae rex pariter, toties certaminis arbiter aequus. ArbiterB hunc alius resonabilis ore rotundo pone premit, qui plaudentes nimis atque loquentes intempestive jubet auscultare, regitque undantis dextrae moderamine propinantes. IN EPULUM Jus testudineum sorptum est, et rhombus, et albi pisciculi incerti generis -poppysmate crebro A REMIGIBUS LECTlS exsilit explosus cortex spurnante lagena UTRIUSQUE ACADEMIAE solvuntur linguae-memorantur pristina, qua vi DECIMO CONFECTO LUSTRO CELEBRATUM. hic vir jnnciptum, qua cancros ceperit ille, quaque gubernator cursum, et qua torserit undas a.d. VII. Id. Apriles, A.S. CI::>DCCCLXXXI. nauta manu : quoties fauste pecus egerit Aegon, et Morz'son quoties : quam multa comederit alter Die mihi, Musa, dapes fe stas quas struxit in aula terga bourn, quot lactucas consumpserit alter. annus Eleusina jam quinquagesimus ex quo Talia jactantur, dum fu ndunt aere canoro decertare Academiam conspexit utramque cornicines musaea mele, lautasque ministri remigibus lectis Thamesis.-Coiere frequentes permutant lances, et amor pacatur edendi. quos et Camus iners et quos velocior Isis Postquam exemta fames glacieque astrict a quiescit sustulerat gremio heroas, juveniliter oHm ventris inops rabies, assurgit praeses amatae ut certare pares, ita nunc cenare parati. Reginae in laudem, mox Principis atque nepotum : o qui complexus et gaudia quanta fuere ! hoc propinarchi gravius devolvitur ore adsunt causidici, praetores, c1ericus ordo, votum-exoptamus matri natoque salutem Curia quos audit, quos ditat Janus, et acrem et natis natorum et qui nascentur ab illis ; qui Mavortis agunt rem, ludorumque magistri : et vocem et proprios numeros chorus aereus add it. miscentur cani fiavis, calvisque comati, Nec mora-non alio poscente adhibemus honorem longaevis juvenes, barbati imberbibus, omnes quos Fora quos Cathedrae quoscunque Ecc1esia jactat viribus integris vegeti memoresque juventae. remigio insignes : hac scilicet arte doceri Grandior hic alios primi certaminis heros' quid jus, quid valeat sancti reverentia et aequi. arduus exsuperat recta cervice humerisque, Ipse viros numerat laudatque, et fortia narrat pondere quo nemo invasit graviore phaselon, dum facta, in medium mirantibus omnibus effert jam senior, sed cruda viro et rubicunda senectus. qua tunica indutus sudavit Episcopus" oHm. Convenere ornnes : discumbitur ordine jusso, aequales nempe ut coeant aequalibus et se 2 J. W. Chilty, Esq., Q.C. 3 The toast-master . Lordship sent his jersey. 1 Rev. J. J. Toogood rowed at 14 st. 8lbs. • Of St. Andrew's. Not being able to attend, bis AA 2 - "- "-' :0\1\.-< (.ife:.. 456 112 Ep tt!u11t. In Ep ulum. 45 7 Respondet primus6 triplici qui robore et aere pro que suis, quos distinuere negotia longe, pectus habet munitum, ut equi labentis in ipsum aut quibus Elysium remus jam verberat amnem : pondere contritus tamen assurrexerit atque his et tempus laudant (quam dignum laude !) peractum, intersit dapibus, durus durique laboris cum magis extentis spatiis certare solerent c1ericus officio per longos deditus aIl110S. et breviore ictu graviorem urgere phaselon, proximus huic Iudex,s quo nec servantior aequi necdum libratis tereti fu1cimine major nec magis humanus quo quivis provocet, alter ; vis accessisset remis et forma rotunda, blanda viro species-mens recta in corpore recto nec natibus motu m labentia transtra dedissent. et pariter studio remisque exercita virtus. Haec inter senibus sermo producitur-hora Hunc sequitur crebra natus de gente Fab'J'o'J'um' sera jubet fe stis convivas cedere mensis, consultus juris, quem mersum flumine quondam nec tarn enim memores quam sint bene munere fu ncti ignarum nandi eripuit sors invida, fatum auctores epuli : datur his laus justa, tuamque, quis scit an ut sublime magis servatus obiret ? praeses, opem agnoscunt laetis c1amoribus omnes ; Poscitur et terra pridem spectata marique, turn dormitum abeunt. 0 terque quaterque beati ! et sua quae tantum meditatur praelia virtus : Gaudia quis novit sociis majora receptis ! terni respondent Etonae matris alumni, Aemula sic virtus uno per secula utramque Reginaldus8 atrox quem sensit Taurica tellus corde Academiam et fr aterno faedere jungat ! robore Taunno invictum, cui Sarmata cessit : H. KYNASTON. excipit hunc, quamvis rebus non ipse marinis deditus, at saltem nauarchis acribus acer9 cognatus, crebra metuit quem classe juventus divisa, Henrici fasces et sceptra gerentem : et tu,t° militiam senserunt quo duce primam 9A PE�, "A PE�, pueri innocuam, patriamque tueri assuescunt, positis Thamesino in margine castris. Tum demum auctores primi certaminis ipsos excitat et salvere jubet Denmanius : omnes infremuere viri, et numerosi adduntur honores. Tres" aderant venerandi, et pro se quisque loquuntur • Rev. W. Rogers of Bishopsgate. • Rt. Hon. Sir W . Brelt, Ld. Justice of Appeal. 7 A. L. Smith, Esq. , Col. Reginald Buller. 9 Rev. J. J. Hornby, Head Master of Eton. 10 Rev. Edmond Warre. 1\ Rev. C. Staniforth, } Rev. J. J. Toogood, Oxford. Very Rev. The Dean of Ely, Cambridge. - �. - ,-- ",-rrv.... ,1 e.. \ . �VilHam EIeJt1'Y Bateson. 459 the 12th, 1829, he was entered on the books of St. John's College, which had long been closely connected with Shrewsbury School. The two names placed on the boards of the College immediately before his own, are those of Henry Cotterill, Senior Wrangler in 183 5 and now Bishop of Edinburgh, and George John Kennedy, Senior Classic in 1834, a �n ��mnrhun younger brother of the Regius Professor of Greek. It was not, however, until 183 I, that he actually came into WILLIAM HENRY BATESON. residence, after having closed his career at Shrewsbury with a Latin prize-poem on the Nile, which won �I IHEN the last number of our College Magazine the warmest commendations fr om the head-master. � was on the point of publication, the College His College tutor was Mr. Ralph Tatham, who had sustained a severe and sudden loss in the death then been Public Orator for 22 years, and was elected of its Master, which was recorded in the briefest terms Master of the College eight years after, in 1839, at the close of our last Chronicle. In the few fo llowing During his undergraduate course, his most intimate pages we propose, with the kind assistance of those fr iends were George Kennedy, then in his second year ; who were more or less intimately acquainted with him, G. F. Harris, of Trinity, third Classic in 1835, who had to give a short sketch of his career, and to gather been with him at Shrewsbury ; and William Drake, together in one view some of the recent tributes to his who was afterwards a Fellow of the College and is memory. now Rector of Sedgebrook, near Grantham. The last William Henry Bateson, the fifth son of Richard was one of his constant companions in his walks : they Bateson, a merchant of Liverpool, was born in that read Herodotus, Tacitus, Juvenal, and a large portion town on the 3rd of June, 1812. He was educated at of Aristophanes together ; at the second Christmas Shrewsbur y School, which was then under one of its Examination, which was deferred to January 1833, most distinguished head-masters, Dr. Samuel Butler. the men having been sent down in the October term His original destination was the University of Oxford, on account of the cholera, Bateson and Drake, according where he was encouraged to compete fo r a Scholar to the custom of the time, declaimed in the College ship at an unusually early age. He entered the Chapel, on the sub ject of 'The Gracchi,' and won the examination under the assurance that, if he acquitted two prizes fo r Latin declamation. It is still more himself well, his youth would count in his favour interesting to note, because strikingly characteristic in the result, and his performances in the competition of the man, that h� was one of a party who stoutly fully entitled him to election, but the Scholarship opposed the exclusion of Sizars fr om the College boat was, nevertheless, awarded to an older candidate!' and cricket clubs ; and, though he never rowed or It was consequently arranged that he should go played cricket, identified himself with the movement to Cambridge instead, and accordingly, on October which resulted in the establishment of new cricket and boat clubs. In the Spring of 1834, he was attacked at the fa r • See Commemoratio" Sermon, p. 447. by typhus fe ver, and lay, in his rooms end ...-. �- � -= \"... \ 460 In Me mo'l'Z'am W£ llz'am Hm t') Bateson. 46 1 of the New Court, fo r six weeks between life and death. would have been reached by one who in af ter years, When he left College, he was reduced to a skeleton, as Master of his College, was remarkable for his and his memory was entirely gone. After some months, legal acumen and judicial ability. He ultimately his Classics came back to him quite suddenly j but his decided, however, on taking holy orders, and returning severe illness had left its traces on him in a certain to Cambridge. In the Conclusion Book of the loss of elasticity and a slight weakening of memory College, we find that, on January 2 7th, 1840, it was which, little as they may have been suspected by others, agreed by the Master and Seniors 'to appoint the made him conscious in after life that he was never quite Rev. W. H. Bateson chaplain of Horningsea during the same man after it as before. He had another our pleasure.' It was at Horningsea that his first narrow escape while bathing in the estuary of the sermon was preached in the same year, on Galatians Mersey j though a remarkably strong swimmer, he was vi. 15, 'In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth carried out to sea by the current and gave himself any thing, nor un circumcision, but a new creature: up fo r lost, when he was picked up by a passing In the same year, a school was established in the steamboat which was plying between the Isle of Man parish, the College deciding on the 26th of October and Liverpool. The life that was afterwards to be 'to give a site for the proposed national school of such value to others was thus twice rescued from house at Horningsea, not exceeding half a rood an early death j twice in our late Master's case was of land,' and also 'to give five guineas a year verified the memorable saying, 'man is immortal till towards the support of the school: The Chaplaincy his work is done.' of Horningsea was resigned in 1844 : he had mean His illness made it necessary fo r him to degrade, while been appointed Vicar of Madingley. Here, again, and he thus fell upon a year in which the Classical the building of the school, which may still be competition was unusually severe j but fo r which, in seen on the, right hand of the entrance into the the opinion of his contemporaries, he would have been village, bearing the date 1844, was due to his zeal a University Scholar. He took his degree in 1836, and energy.'" Meanwhile, on Nov. I, 1843, he had as Senior Optime and third in the first Class of the been elected to a College Preachership. The Con Classical Tripos j among his Examiners fo r the iatter clusion Book also info rms us of three tours on the were the present Dean of Ely and the Rector of continent j on three several occasions, under the dates Freshwater. In February J837, he was elected to a of 16 July, J838, 13 May, 1843, and 2 July, 1845, Fellowship, and, immediately after, became second we find the entry of permission granted in the follow master of a Proprietary School at Leicester, of which ing terms, in accordance with the Statutes then in the present Master of Trinity had been the first head force : 'agreed that Mr. Bateson have leave to go master. It was then under the Rev. E. T. Vaughan, abroad.' of Christ's j and on the resignation of the latter, In 1842 and 1843, he was one of the Examiners Mr. Bateson was elected his successor, but never took up the office, his friend Mr. Drake being appointed his name as in his place. • The present Vicar informs me that the earliest entry of burials) ; and the Vicar of Madingley is on Nov. 26, 1843 (in the book of After this, he read fo r the Bar, and it can hardly believes, at the expense latest, on March 21, 1847. The school was built, he be doubted that a high position in that profession of Sir Vincent Cotton. \..,..oA" i'..,if-t:... & . ______ 462 bl Me morzcl?lt W� lhanz .Henry Bateson. 463 for the Classical Tripos. For some years, about this Book. Feb. loth, 1846, 'agreed that before the renewal period, he was engaged in private tuition ; and, in of any of our leases, the Bursar do fu rnish the Seniors that capac ity, had a high reputation in the University with all particulars respecting the property intended to for the soundness and accuracy of his scholarship, be leased, at least a month before any offer is made to more especially in Greek and Latin Prose Compo the tenant.' On March 23, (in the hand-writing of the sition. It is said that no one of his time knew newly appointed Bursar, as junior member of the his Demosthenes, or his Tacitus, better than he. Seniority), 'agreed that all accounts of every kind, Among his private pupils may be mentioned the trust funds as well as the general accounts, be Hon. George Denman, Senior Classic in 1842, who, examined and prepared at least a week before the writing shortly after the late Master's death, describes final Audit, fo r the inspection and approval of the him as his 'dear old friend and revered tutor,' Seniors, and not be finally passed unless signed by and adds, 'I fe el that I owe him more than I can the Master and at least one of the two Deans.' express fo r what he did fo r me, and I shall always Lastly, on November 2 I, it was 'agreed that the honour his memory as that of one of the most Senior Bursar be requested to communicate to Mr. genuine of friends.' The last place in the first Class Bushby, as one of the Executors under Dr. Wood's will, of the same Tripos was occupied by another dis that it is resolved by the Master and Seniors to rectify tinguished pupil, Charles Kingsley*. Among others without delay, so far as possible, the irregularities that who read with him were two who were among the have been committed with regard to Dr. Wood's highest in the Classical Triposes of 1846 and 1848 estate, and that Mr. Bushby be requested to act with respectively, the Rev. Dr. J. S. Wood, now President the President, and the Senior Bursar, in endeavouring of the College, and the present Professor of Latin. to ascertain the exact sum which is due to Dr. Wood's In 18 46, the year of his B.D. degree, after holding residuary estate, and ought to have been invested, with the office of Steward, he was appointed Senior Bursar a view to the investment of the same, and to report to of the College, at a time when grave irregularities had the Master and Seniors.' Within a week after, the found their way into the management of the College amount was ascertained to be more than £3,000, which property. The nature of these irregularities may be sum had apparently been allowed by the outgoing gathered fr om the fo llowing entries in the Conclusion Bursar to form part of the dividends of the Fellows, instead of being from time to time duly invested as a • Life of Ch dividend arles Kingsley, 1., p. 57, 58 : 'Dr. Bateson, his tutor much fund held in trust by the College. The beloved, whose Kindly reception of him when he returned as Regius which fo r several years had, by these artificial means, Professor of Modern History in 1860, was a source of grateful joy to him, £ 130, dropped to £ II° at the close thus recalls the been kept up to undergraduate, to whom his help was so important: December, ...• management to £ 140 I8i5 I look back wit" 1Ituc;' satisfaction, and shalt always of 1846, to rise under better reflect " 7fJitltpride on my engagement to serve him in the capacity of Classical fo r 1847, to £150 fo r the years 1848 to 1851, and £160 private tutor. He was my pupil fo r Ids t".-ee firstterms, from October, 1838, fo r 1852. to Midsummer, 1829, and again from October, 1840, to the end the of LOll! On October 26, 1848, when President of the College, Va cation, 1841 .... My own relations to Clta1'les ICing_ley in those early days a contest with the were always agr eeable, although I was unable to induce him to app ly himself he was elected Public Orator, after with any energy , to his classical work, .mtil quitelthe close of his u1Zder late Dr. Rowland Williams, Fellow and Tutor of graduate career.' King's College, who obtained 396 votes against Mr. Vl/'-I' _ <.. �r-.0cA:p 464 In Me mortam Wz'llzam He nry Bateson. 465 Bateson's 458. The manner in which he discharged dum esse, omnzbus refente ex utraque farte tuo standum the duties of his office may be concluded from the esse fudzczo flacuit. Ut enim ante susceptum, zta cum fo llowing interesting extract from Mr. Todhunter's maxime post actu7?Z arbz'trzum, sz'ngularem omnes in te work on the ' Writings and Letters ' of the Rev. Dr. vidz1n us frudentz'am, fustiHam et aequz"tatem plane reli Whewell, the late Master of Trinity, where the editor gzosam, comz"tatem et suavz'tatem m07'um omnzno admzrabilem. remarks (vol. i., p. 4 11): 'I once heard him complain Neque fudic�·o demu7'ft fronzmtz'ato id a nobzs possumus very much of the Latin Prose Composition which came z1ftfetrare quin disertis verbz's frofiteamur, qztod aequttm under his notice officially in the University, not for bonum que esset, neminem fersficaczits vzaere potu�·sse ; faults of style, but fo r the absence of point and meaning ; neminem mutuae znter partes benevolenHae consultius to this general censure he made one decided exception, f'l'osfzcere. namely, the speeches of the Public Orator of the per�od, Re denzque con/ecta, ne deesset quod conco'l'dzam z1zdicaret the present Master of St. John's College.' The fo llowing tuo o./ft czo znter disszaentes concz'liatam, tum etz'am te bene specimen of his Latinity is selected fr om the letters ficz'a af ud homznes non omnzno ingratos atque immemores written by him on behalf of the University, not that collocasse, munusculum in commune A cademici et Bur it is the most interesting, but mainly because it happens genses comfaravz1nus, quod te non g'l'avate accepturum esse to bear on the relations then subsisting between the confidenter sferamus. Va le. University and the Town,-a subject which afterwards Dabamus e Senaculo nos/ro commanded a large share of his attention when, as a. d. vi. Idus Ocfobres Master of the College, he was member of at least A. s. MDCCCLVI.'" one important Syndicate appointed fo r its consideration. In r850, when a Commission, consisting of Dr. John . VZ yO honoratisszmo Johannz· Patteson, Equz"tz"A urato, Graham, Bishop of Chester, Dr. Peacock, Dean of Ely, Reg�·ae Mafestati a secretzs const'lz'zs, Procancellanus Sir John Herschel, Sir John Romilly, and Professor rekquusque Senatus Cantabrzgiensis S. P. D. Sedgwick, was appointed to inquire 'into the state, Exsfectandum ratzs, donec, lege secundum sententzam discipline, studies, and revenues ' of the University of tuam sancz"ta, of us abs te nostra causa susceftum ad exz'tum Cambridge, and ' of all, and singular, the Colleges in ferduceretur, zgnoscas nobis, frecamur, vz'r amflzsst'me, the said University '; the Commissioners nominated Mr. sz· tardzus fusto has ad te litteras dedzsse v�·deamur. Quz'" Bateson as their Secretary. Within two years of their bus za fotz'sszmum szgnijican· volumus, frof ter of era m zn appointment, the Commissioners presented, in r852, negotizs nostns navatam, et frofensam erga Cantaorigzenses an elaborate Report extending over more than 200 fo lio voluntatem, forming altogether nos gratzas tz'bi quantum fosstmus et agere pages, with 474 pages of evidence, a et habere maxz1rtas. Cum enzm multae res inter Acade the author of the Cambridge Award mzam nostram et Munzczpium Cantabrzgz'ense aliquot • Ep istolae Academicae, p. 1094 (to of the letters of thanks annos zn disceftatzonem Act). The same volume iucludes manuscript copies quaestionemque vocatae erart f, 1849) to the Chancellor, addressed by him on the part of the University (in neque multum Jam aberat quzn flures Fitzwilliam Museum); to Mr. ultro cz"troque H. R. H. Prince Albert, for his portrait in the zntend the Marbles and Casts presented erentur lz "tes, fer te zmfrzmzs stett't qztomznus John Disney and Mr. Jolm Kirkpatricl< [01' in 1850 ; and to Frededck controversz'ae diu vexatae zn/estz!; homznum anz'nzis z'n by them respectively, to the same Museum, 1852, [or his proposed gift of the great William IV., King of Prussia, in mutua z"ncommoda exzrent. Semel frofust'to quza zn It zs and Ethiopia, to the of Lepsius, on the Monuments of Egypt rebus aequius work meltus vzaeretur ad a'l'bt�zum tuum riferen- Uni"ersity Library, - \.- t'>.. e 466 In Me mo1'zam William I-Ie my Bateson . 467 most valuable body of information on the state of the University matters. We here find the following University and Colleges, and including suggestions fo r question addressed to the Master, among many others many important reforms, the majority of which have of greater pertinence : 'Do you apprehend, from your since been carried out. knowledge of the English mind, that there is any In 1857, on February 2, he was elected Master of the prejudice in the middle class provincial mind of England College, in place of Dr. Tatham. He was soon after against Colleges as compared with Universities.' The admitted to the degree of D.D. per Literas Regias, and Master replied : 'I do not know what is meant exactly his marriage took place in the following summer. In by the provincial mind of England.' Again, on 1858, he was elected Vice-Chancellor, but held office for March 11, 187 I, he was examined before a Select one year only, and subsequently on more than one Committee of the House of Lords on University Tests ; occasion declined to serve. He was, however, re and in the course of some nine pages of evidence, his peatedly elected a Member of the Council of the Senate, opinions on the subject are clearly and judiciously a body in whose original establishment, in place of the stated. Out of more than one hundred of his replies Oaput, he took an important part, and in whose pro to the enquiries of the Committee, we quote only one, ceedings he always shewed an active interest. For the in which the dilemma started in the question : 'Do last fe w years of his life he acted as Secretary of the you consider College endowments as belonging to the Council ; and there were fe w important Syndicates of nation, or as belonging to the College ?' is met by which he was not a member. He also did good the prudent reply : 'I consider them as belonging service as a member of the governing bodies of to the College, but subject to Parliamentary revision.' Shrewsbury, Rugby and the Perse School ; and his The position that he took in University politics counsel was greatly valued in Cambridge by the pro may in some measure be further illustrated by the moters of the High School fo r girls, and by all following characteristic passages in the official report who were interested in advancing the higher education of some of his latest speeches in the Arts' School. They of women. are all taken from the debate on the 17 graces, bearing In 1872, he was appointed one of the seven Members on the revision of the University statutes, which were of the Commission fo r inquiring into the property and discussed in the Arts' School on March 1 I and 12, 1878. income of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ; "It would De fo und on examination of the present Statutes that each and in 1880, on the death of the late Chief Justice clause contained a number of small things which stood in the way of doing Cockburn, he was placed upon the Commission appointed anything, The University could not pass the scheme for admitting unattached because there was no express allowance of such a thing in the by the Act passed in 1877, " to make fu rther provision students Statutes. In Oxford the scheme was passed without any such difficulty, and respecting the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge thus Cambridge lagged behind Oxford, and seemed to be fo llowing its lead, and the Colleges therein.' On July 4, 1867, he was although he believed there was a readiness to adopt the Scheme.'" "If anyone would take the tl'Ouble to translate these Statutes into ordinary examined before the Select Committee of the I-louse of a would see that thero! was mighty little in them. They were Commons, on the Oxfo rd and Cambridge Education Bill, English, he mild fe tter, not a grave one, irritating perhaps, and putting the University Those who which resulted in the extension of the advantages of a on a lower level than ()xford, even than the public Schools. penultimo Ma rtis Junii and University Education to Non-Collegiate Students. thought it desirable to retain the words His evidence extends over fifteenfo lio pages, containing much that is interesting and valuable on College and " Un ive1'sity Repo1'te1', March 19, 1878, p. 369. v V'--( -. l.. �r'VV (A e. 468 In Memoriam William Henry Bateson. 469 Ma triculatlo did not breathe the spirit of the times. [Dr. Bateson then Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Lightfoot, Professor Adams and others gave ex. gave a literal translation of Statute n. 2, with highly amusing comments.] pression to the strong fe eling of that Meeting, which was, that the Council of There was a good deal in these Statutes about migration from another tlle Senate should have all the functionsand power of the Heads of Houses. But University, which gave a good deal of trouble, so much so that Oxford had after the failur� of the firstBill it was proposed that this one thing should be abolished it. There was something about computing terms to absentees, but introduced by way of lubricating the transition, and it was accepted becanse all its vitality came from the regulations which depend upon Grace. If once of the good effects hoped for from the rest of the legislation. They were now it was allowed that the "nine terms " might be dealt with by Grace, all invited to make such proposals as should be for the interests of the University, would be done ; and the House of Commons-and, he believed, the Govern_ and with the experience of twenty-two years they made this proposal. If ment-were in favour of that.". nomination was done away with, it could only be that the election should be by the Electoral Roll or by Grace of the Senate. The anticipation which he The next quotation is from the debate, held on heard of turmoil and angry passions reminded him of what was said twenty. the following day, on the Grace proposing 'that the two years ago, when there was much more alarm and apprehension succeeded Vice-Chancellor be elected by those members of the by much satisfaction. The legislation of that period had resuscitated the Uni. versity and placed it in a career of much ,vider usefulness and of satisfactory Senate whose names are on the Electoral Roll, without work."'" any lim itation of choice to persons previously nomi Extracts such as these, however, must necessarily nated by the Council, or other Body. fail to give an adequate conception of his style as a "The Master of St. John's would clear himself of an imputation of regard speaker. In his public utterances, whether in the ing these propositions with any levity. What he did regard as unimportant Arts' School or elsewhere, the attention of those who were those regulations in the Statutes about degrees, matriculatio, magna comitia, placet and non placet, and various other formalities. Those were were present was early arrested, and kept well in hand matters of a trivial nature which any ordinary set of gentlemen might arrange from first to last ; but in all that he said, there for themselves. The present proposals be considered to be of grave was no appearance of dIsplay, no affectation of fine character. He was not specially tied to election by the Electoral Roll ; but speaking. To enforce his views, he trusted mainly it was necessary to have a smaller body than the Senate, or they must come to a nomination, and that was a difficult matter to arrange. It was true that to weighty and cogent argument, expressed in clear -as the Provost of King's had said-under the old system the Vice and concise language, varied occasionally by a certain Chancellor had a happy body to which he resorted, which met without fondness fo r a sonorous combination of words or by authority indeed but regularly, and the more active members of this body or legal constituted a sort of dry nurses to the Vice-Chancellor. They were most a passing reference to phrases of classical zealous and able, but they made themselves a Committee of advisers, and Latinity. At one time, he would state his opinion woe betide any unfortunate Vice-Chancellor if he did not resort to them. that a course of action that was contemplated would The Master of Jesus dared to venture to act alone and contrary to their ad. be ultra vires ," at another, he would discountenance the vice, and had a troublous time of it, and very little was done in his year in consequence. But since the Council had existed, there had been no need of insertion in College Statutes of embarrassing limitations, this ready-made committee to whom the Vice-Chancellor might go for advice. such as ceterzs pan·bus ,. and one of his favourite meta He had now no title to go to any one tiut the Council, who were best able to phors was taken from the Roman vzvan'um. On an advise. If the Electoral Roll acted as any other body of gentlemen with when, in the debate on the 'Affiliation of responsibility did, it would select persons fitted for the Oflice, and such persons occasion would be quite sure to get the needful knowledge in the Council or elsewhere Local Colleges,' Dr. Westcott had spoken of the just as well as now. The Clause of the Act which it was now proposed to happiness of Cambridge-working in union with Oxford, repeal was a compro mise, and was in direct opposition to the current opinion the two moving pan' passu, he rejoined by expressing of the members of the Senate. On May 5, r8ss, the ed a Proctors conven concerned, it meeting of members of the Senate. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Campion, the his fears that, so fa r as Cambridge was .. Repo,·ter, p. 371. • £fJ.p. 374. VOL. XI. BB \' --=",--�V """'� C'K:'rwc;=c4of> 4 70 In Me mortam Wi lHam Henry Bateso1i. 471 would be passzbus haud aequis.· Lastly, in one of his Members of the Seniority and others who were Sermons he observes, 'a pagan writer could see that officially in constant communication with him. it was better cum vz'rtutz"bus esse quam extra vitz"a : As Master of the College, in the words of one who, much more is it of the very essence of the Christian as a Member of the Seniority, and in other ways, was Church.' It was seldom, however, that he spoke intimately acquainted with him, he was 'ever ready to on University matters with such warmth and energy take the lead in widening and increasing the teaching as during the debates from which we have already powers of the College, and in rewarding intellectual quoted. The questions at issue appeared to revive, distinction of every kind.'''' He annually gave three more keenly than ever, his remembrance of the battles prizes of books, of the value of three guineas each, for that had been waged in his younger days during the best English Essay, in each of the three years. the last re:vision of the Statutes of the University ; One of his latest acts, during the last fe w weeks of his and, as the leading exponent of the points in which life, was the anonymous donation of .£500 to an undis fu rther revision seemed necess ary, he shewed, in the tributed balance of the Tuition Fund, a small and debates of the Arts' School, as well as in the delibera annually diminishing sum, out of which are paid the tions of the Council, a striking combination of the lecture-fees of students attending lectures in other vigour of youth and the wisdom of maturer years. Colleges on certain subjects in which no lectures are Similarly, during the numerous meetings of the Fellows supplied by the College. Such an act of genuine and of the College which were held between June 1877 unobtrusive generosity entitles him to the grateful and December 1878, under the provisions of the remembrance of the College, as one of its truest bene Universities Act of the former year, although in this factors ; and even although the transitory character of case he appeared not as an advocate of reform, but his benefaction may prevent his name being included as an impartial chairman, he always shewed a special in the list recited at our annual commemoration, interest in referring to the precedents of the last that name can never be numbered among those revision of the College Statutes. His patience in 'which have no memorial.' But the benefits which he presiding over debates which were apt to be conferred on his College, during a Mastership of four wearisome in the extreme, his industry and accuracy and twenty years, were far wider in their operation than in constantly drawing up the necessarily somewhat those which were intended to be promoted by his latest intricate record of the agenda and the acta of each gift. In the words of the writer, whom we have already successive meeting, the high capacity shewn by his quoted, 'he found, we may hope, some recompense' fo r conduct in the chair, and the force and weight of his services, 'in the respectful regard of the Society over the few speeches in which he occasionally gave ex. which he presided ; this, indeed, seemed to increase pression at somewhat greater length to his own year by year, so that he was probably never more opinions on the matter in hand, were nothing short beloved than during the last fe w months of his life . of a revelation of some of his great powers to tho se . . . . He was especially distinguished by a clear logical ct of the Fellows who had been brought less into conta intellect, by a singularly acute judgment, and by a e with their Master than had been the case with th • From the obituary notice written by Mr. Bonney [or the Cambridge • Repol fer, May, 6, r879, p. 583. Review, for March 30. VOL XI. BB 2 " v v-.t' _ C �r-.� 4 7 2 In Me moHam Willia m He nry Bateson. 473 remarkable fa culty fo r seeing the weak points of any The first part of the fu neral service was held in scheme or argument. He was an excellent man of the College Chapel at 1I o'clock on the 31st of March. business, of great industry and patience, a first-rate In the front of the fu neral procession, headed by chairman of a meeting, discerning its feeling with the College Porter, were the Chapel Choir, the marvellous intuition. An outward dignity of demea Deans and Professor Mayor. Next followed the nour was combined with a real simplicity of character, Body, enclosed in a case of polished oak, with many and beneath a slight external coldness of manner lay wreaths of flowers resting on it, one of them the a heart remarkably kind.' offering of the Bachelors and Scholars of the During the Lent Term of this year, towards the College. Four Senior Fellows walked on either side ; close of a more than usually severe winter, he suffered next fo llowed the Master's Family ; and after them repeatedly from attacks of gout and bronchitis, the Dr. Paget and Dr. Latham. The rest of the procession, latter occasionally taking a spasmodic fo rm, but consisting of a large number of representatives of the without leading to any serious alarm being generally University and the College, who had met meanwhile excited as to his condition. On the morning, however, in the Combination Room, was in the fo llowing order : of Sunday, March 2 7th, at about nine o'clock, after a The Vice-Chancellor, the Mayor of Cambridge, somewhat restless night, another spasmodic attack the President of the College, Heads of Colleges came on, and in a very short time all was over. The {including the Masters of Trinity, Clare, Emmanuel, sad news of his death came with a shock of sudden Gonville and Caius, Peterhouse, Pembroke, Magdalene, surprise, when first announced, shortly before ten, to Sidney, and the President of Queens'), Doctors (indud some of the Members of the College on their way to the ing Dr. Westcott, Dr. Hort, Dr. Clark, and Dr. Chapel Service. There was no music in the College Humphry), the Public Orator, Professors and Officers Chapel on that Sunday morning. In the evening, the of the University (including Dr. Luard, Mr. Bradshaw, Dead March in Sau! was most impressively played, and and Professors C. C. Babington, Birkbeck, Cayley, the same mark of respect to the memory of the departed Colvin, Cm,vell, Liveing, Seeley, and Skeat), Honorary was paid in the Chapel of Trinity College also. On the Fellows (the Dean of Ely, Dr. Kennedy, Dr. Babing next day, in accordance with the Statutes, a meeting of ton, Professor Adams, and Mr. Todhunter), Fellows the resident Electors to the office of Master, was called of the College, late Fellows·, Masters of Arts of the by the President, at which, after the hour of half-past two on the 12th of April had been fixed fo r the election read asking the College to accept as a gift fr om her the Portrait of Dr. of a new Master, the following resolution was unani Bateson in the Dining-room of the Lodge, and it was agreed to accept the mously passed, on the proposal of Professor Mayor :- same and to request the �iaster to convey to Mrs. Bateson the thanks of the College for her gift. A month after, on May I3th, it was agreed to present "The Fellows of St. John'S College request the President to convey to Mrs. Bateson with a copy of the Portrait, which has since been executed by Mrs. Bateson and her Family their heartfelt sympathy with them in their Mr. J. Edgar Williams. bereavement. They wish also to record tileir grateful sense of the services to • Among former Fellows of tile College, who came Cambridge to rendered by the late Master for many years both to the College and the attend the funeral, were Dr. Gifford, Dr. Currey, Dr. Reyner, Rev. J. H. * University." , Howlett, B.D. , Rev. J. S. Hoare B. D., PrGf. Pritchard, Rev. Canon Drake, t , Rev. Canon Harper, Rev. Joseph B. Mayor, Rev. C. B. Hn chinson Rev_ v u C. Srnith, Rev. * At the first meeting of the Master and Seniors, hem on April 13th, the E. W. Bowling, Re . J. M. F ller, Rev. J. E. 'V. D. H. day after the election of the new Master, a letter from Mrs. Bateson was Bushell, and Rev. W. Moss. V\A.i" _ L f-... 4 Wi lliam EIen?'y Bate 74 In Me mo?'iam son. 475 sun-lit conspicuous College, and Masters of Arts of other Colleges. Next The spire which there rises from their fo ot points with a sure significance of the spirits of the came the Undergraduates of the College to th e abode just, and will long serve Bachelors and to yourselves as a beacon and a daily remembrance. who had assem bled beforehand in the Hall ; and lastly, It were indeed forbidden to associate the memory of Our decent pom p the College Tradesmen and the College Servants. with thoughts of tliumph, for triumph becomes not yet the Church of Christ The procession passed round the Second Court, in this its militant condition, but assuredly there was not a heart beating in that long procession which throbbed not with the emotions of thanksgiviug : and extended so fa r that those at the head of the thanksgiving for the light and the possession of a great example. An ex long line of mourners had already entered the first ample ofintegIity unsullied ; truthfulness inviolate ; friendship firmand secure. Court when the last Undergraduate left the Hall. Yourselves know better than I can remind you, how for the greater part of On the way to the Chapel, the choir sang the hymn half a century he laboured among you, wisely, sincerely, and ' painfully,' for the promotion of all that you and he deemed to be useful for the public service. beginning with the words 'Brief life is here our You have long been the familiar witnesses of his prompt sagacity, and of his portion,' pausing fo r a while before the final verses judicial habit of mind, in council, and of his consistent perseverance in action. which immediately preceded the entry into the Ante A man of strong convictions, steady, luminous ; and because so sb'ong, and steady, and luminous, therefore unostentatious and noiseless in the execution chapel. The Lesson was read by Prof essor Mayor, of his purposes. and the words of the Anthem were : 'I heard a voice My friends, these are great gifts, but they come to no man at the light from heaven, saying unto me, Write, From henceforth bidding of the moment. The seeds thereof are sown indeed in the mind and blessed are the dead which die in Lord : even so in the heart, by a beneficent and providential hand ; but the eztlture thereof, lies in the persistent efforts of the man himself. Efforts of patience, of saith the Spirit : fo r they rest fr om their labours: forbearance, of self restraint, of gentleness, of humility ; habits of fa ith ; faith At the close of this part of the Service, the choir, in God, faith in his fellow-creatures ; faith in the onward progress of humanity. as they passed out of Chapel through the first court, By the exercise of such high qualities it is ordained of God that the great pil lars of Human Society are built up, and among such was our fliend long sang the hymn commencing with the lines honoured and loved ; now revered. I have not the heart to call him our late friend : he is indeed gonebefore us by a little whiff of vaporous time, but sUl'ely "Jesus lives ! Thy terrors now we dwell ourselves amidst the eternal realities of spirits around us, from whom Can no longer, Death, appal us." there is a voice heard articulate within the heart : Go thou and do thou like wise, after the measure of thy gifts. A very large number of carriages followed the hearse The high regard in which he was held in the Town to the place of burial at Madingley, the scene of some of bridge cannot be better attested than by the the Master's earlier labours, where his body now rests of Cam ing extract from the proceedings of the Cambridge under the open space of level tu rf, just beyond the yew follow provement Board, a body on which the Town is trees that fringe the southern side of the older portion Im represented. At the monthly meeting of the of the church-yard. On the next Sunday the Dead largely held on April 12th, the Chairman, Mr. Swann March was played after the University Sermon, which Board, as follows :- preached by the Rev. Charles Pritchard, fo rmerly Hurrell, spoke was Board Gentlemen, since our last meeting, on the 15th of March, the Fellow of the College. In the course of the Sermon, - by the death have sustained a very great loss-for the second time this year to have kno, n the preacher referred in the fo llowing terms to the of the Master of St. John's. It has been my good fortune : years, and I am qUite great loss which the University had sustained :- the late Master of St. John's since 1838, for forty-three . that a due testimony sure it will be the wish of every member of this Board . myself feel q lllte caPable I have spoken of the sunset of a great earthly life as a memory and a should be paid to his memory. I do not of respect w hose deat l1 of many among you will have at once reverted to that . Ile d'IS tmguI' 'shed gentleman sb'ength, The thoughts of saying all that might be said upon t w 0 s ay a few word s, and h e . ill impressive scene of decent pomp wherewith we carried all that is mortal of we deplore, bnt I will request Mr. Ea d en t our friend to their quiet resting place under the shadow of those ancient trees· propose a resolution. v v..-t _. l,.. .vv(A -e..__ l�. _ ._ _ . � 76 In Me mor�'am WilNam He nry Bateson. 4 477 Mr. Eaden : I have been requested to propose :-' That this board desires the University. In fact it is not too much, perhaps, to say that he found the to express its regret at the loss it has sustained by the death of the Rev. Dr. University the University of a class, and that he left it the Uuiversity of the Bateson, Master of St. John's College, whose foreseeing penetration and nation. I hope that all will cordially agree in passing the resolution I have sound jUdgment have for so many years been of the greatest advantage to tlle read. [Applause.] various interests which this board represents. The board also wishes to ex The resolution was duly seconded, and unanimously agreed to. press its condolence �th the members of the late Master's fa mily, and that the Chairman be requested to furnish a copy of this resolution to be sent to We have barely alluded in the above account of Mrs. Bateson.' Those who recollect the character of Dr. Bateson will no our late Master's varied and active life to the Sermons doubt chiefly remember that whilst he was not wanting in the shrewdness which he preached in the College Chapel. Happily, which goes to make a good man of business, he was at the same time possess ed of the much higher wisdom which arises from a judicial mind, and which a fe w of these have been lately printed fo r private enabled him on all occasions to see that there are velY few general questions circulation, and we cannot perhaps end this notice which have not two sides, and that there are other people besides ourselves better than by the two following quotations. The having views and prejudices. And this has been a great advantage for many first is a characteristic illustration from a Sermon years in the conduct of negociations between the two bodies of the University and Town, in removing asperities and cementing a friendly feeling towards entitled ' Loss and Gain.' each other. Few are able to go back so far as tlle time previous to the Award Or again, suppose the case of a noble University like this, or to come Act, but those who are able to ,vill recollect the heart-burnings that existed more closely home, a College like our own, founded in a remote age to between the two bodies at that period ; and all those who watched the progress foster learning and the arts, to be a centre of intellectual life and of moral of the negociations which resulted in that Act, know how much we were in infl uence; to be in short a corporate teacher and to lead a teacher's life, to debted to Dr. Bateson for that most valuable measure. I may say, that to continue long beyond the mortal term of three-score years and ten to him, to the learned Judge who was the arbitrator, and to the late Town Clerk, perfOlm a teacher's duties and to be crowned with a teacher's glory. Mr. Chas. Henry Cooper, this town and this University owe a deep debt of Suppose the rulers of such a noble institution, grown forgetful of tlle ends <1 gratitude, their wisdom at times resolving the conBiction going on, in way for which it was founded, anxious only for their own ease and their own which enabled us to see that our interests were not antagonistic but mutual. advancement, were either to give themselves up to luxury and idleness, or I pass on to another portion of the late Master's career, namely, the year were to allow their College, instead of fulfilling the high purposes for which 1874, when a measure was proposed, which unfortunately miscarried. In it was established, to neglect its duties and become rich and despised the preparation of that measure, the late Masterassisted with the same largeness endowed and useless, you might well say-wllat is the use or profit to such an of view as on former occasions, and though there were in the measure some institution of wealth, of fine buildings and of ample revenues, if this is to be objectionable provisions which did not meet the approval of members of the outcome of it all ? Or again, suppose there be in such a College Witll this board, there were valuable provisions in it which must form the basis every incentive and appliance for learning and study a band of students sent of any future legislation. Not only in regard to our relations willi the hither from year to year with bright hopes and noble aspirations, yet many of University, but also willi regard to the business of this board, the late Master them neglecting or misusing the opportunities for good, acquiring evil habits a was always willing to offerhis valuable aid. Coming down to the question and indulging in vicious propensities, and gradually becoming gnawing of the diversion of the sewage from the Cam, he was one who from the care to their parents and friends a�d finally a burthen to lliemselves, may we first preached a lesson of caution : that before we laid out such an enormous not ask whether even a student's life in a noble College like this is not in sum of money as the carrying out of a sewage-scheme would involve, we danger of becoming worse than a wasted opportunity ? should be quite certain that we were following a true light and not a 'Will 0' the wisp.' I am happy to say that fudner delay and enquiry has enabled We close with the concluding passage of his sermon us to believe and to hope that we shall be enabled to do all that is required on 'Life and Creed,' the last words spoken by him at a very considerably less expense than was at first contemplated. [Hear, hear.] We ought not, in viewing the Character of a man of Dr. Bateson's in our College Chapel. fu ture state, are station, take so nanow a view as to consider him only as a member of this If our ideas of God, of life, of duty, of heaven and the the condition in board ; though, of course, it is not one's duty to enter very much into his coloured and affected by the life which we actually lead, by or intellectual, how earnest, private or University career. But those who b elieve, ' as I do, that the which we severally are, whether moral, physical environment as pure and prosperity of the town has been greatly benefited by the extension of the how diligent should we be, to keep our whole and intellectual power, University, are in duty bound to recollect the large share Dr. Bateson took spotless as we can, to enlarge our field of knowledge of thoughts of God and of His in the promotion of that measure for extending the influence and utility as being likely thereby to attain to more worthy I 478 In Me mo'dam w-t'INam Henry Bateson. moral government of the world. To find what God is and what He ought to be to us, what He was doubtless to the Prophets and Patriarchs of old, what we have to do is to order our lives to righteousness. Let us, by trying to do the will of God in our daily life, learn of the truth whether it be of God. We �hall never learn it othelwise. If we would know God and delight ourselves in Him, we must not be satisfied to say what is commonly said or to think what is commonly thought and believed about Him. By daily doing His will-by daily doing our duty, all that we know to be right and good ; by sincerity of speech, by honest and fa ithful work ; by fo rgiveness of injuries ...... ; by kindness, by charity, let us try to raise ourselves out of all nalTOW and mean views of God and of the godly OUR CHRONICLE. life. Don't be afraid of enquiry on religious subjects any more than on other It is just subjects. on these, if on no other subjects, that men must think for themselves if they are to think at all. Each man must be his own instructor Ea sier Te nn , 188 1. matters � of religion. There is no reason why on the greatest, the most solemn, the most important of all subjects, men should condemn themselves to naiTOW and On April 12th, the Reverend Charles Taylor, M.A., Fellow views poverty of mind. The study of books, all those ideas and Theological Lecturer, was elected to the office of Master. 1I'hich are to be derived fr om the study of science, or fr om the course of Mr. Taylor, who was born in the year 1840, and educated at history ; in short, the whole of the noblest possession of an enlightened age, King's College School, London, came into residence in 1858, �ese things are within your reach and should enable you to refine and purify and graduated in 1862 as ninth Wrangler, besides obtaining a your minds and raise your aspirations above the common level ; and what is second class in the Classical Tripos. In 1863 he was awarded c�rtain is-and this is the great lesson which I desire to impress upon you a first class at the Voluntary Theological Examination, and in to live after the example of Christ-not merely to do no harm, but to do 1864 obtained the first Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship and the good - to devote your life to the highest ends of living -this willhelp you to Crosse Theological Scholarship. In November, 1864, he was rise to higher things ; so that to you, whatever He may be to others, the elected a Fellow of the College. In the year 1867 he was Merciful may be merciful, the True may be true, and the Pitiful may be the successful candidate for the Kaye prize, and his Essay was compassionate. published in 1869 under the title ' The Gospel in the Law ; J. E. SANDYS. a critical examination of the citations from the Old Testament July, 1881. in the New,' a volume of 356 pages, dedicated to the Hebrew Lecturer of the College, Mr. Mason. In 1874 he was appointed Lecturer in Theology. In the same year appeared his next work, 'The Dirge of Coheleth in Ecclesiastes xii, discussed and literally interpreted.' In 1877, the Syndics of the U niver sity Press published his 'Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, in Hebrew and English, with critical and illustrative notes.' At the close of 1880 he completed his "Introduction to the Ancient and Modern Geometry of Conics," an enlarged edition of his previous work on 'Geometrical Conics' (1863), including an elaborate dissertation on the history of Greek Geometry. I-le has also contributed articles to the Cambridge Plzz'lo soplzz'cal Jo urnal, and is joint editor of the Me ssenger of Ma thematzcs. For a short time, about 1869, he was one of the curates at St. Andrew's the Great, his fe llow··curate at the time being another Fellow of the College, Mr. Pearson, now Bishop of Newcastle. He was an Examiner for the Theological Tripos in 1872 , 1879 and 1880. In November, 1880, he was elected a Member of the Council of the Senate. He is also one of the Syndics of the University Library and a Member of the Boards of Oriental and Theological Studies. It is generally under- 478 In Memo'r1'am William Henry Bateson. moral government of the world. To find what God is and what He ought to be to us, what He was doubtless to the Prophets and Patriarchs of old, what we have to do is to order our lives to righteousness. Let us, by trying to do the will of God in our daily life, learn of the truth whether it be of ,God. We �hall nev er learn it otherwise. If we would know God and delight ourselves in Him, we must not be satisfied to say what is commonly said or to thinlc what is commonly thought and believed about Him. By daily doing His will-by daily doing our duty, all that we know to be right and good; by sincerity of speech, by honest and faithful work; by forgiveness of injuries ...•.••.., .•••••.. ••••.. ; by kindness, by charity, let us try to raise ourselves out of all narrow and mean views of God and of the godly OUR CHRONICLE. life. Don't afraid of be enquiry on religious subjects any more than on other subjects. It is just on these, if on no other subjects, that men must think for themselves if they are to think all. at Each man must be his own instructor Easier Term, 188 I. matters of religion. in There is no reason why on the greatest, the most solemn, the most important of all subjects, men should condemn themselves l to narrow views and poverty On April 12th, the Reverend Charles Taylor, M.A., Fel ow of mind. The study of books, all those ideas and Theological Lecturer, was elected to the office of Master. �hich are to be derived from the study of science, or from the course of Mr. Taylor, who was born in the year 184-0, and educated at history; in short, the whole of the noblest possession of an enlightened age, King's College School, London, came into residence in 1858, these things are within your reach and should enable you to refine and purify and graduated in 1862 as ninth Wrangler, besides obtaining a your minds and raise your aspirations above the common level; and what is second class in the Classical Tripos. In 1863 he was awarded c�rtain is-and this is the great lesson which I desire to impress upon you a first class at the Voluntary Theological Examination, and in to live after the example of Christ-not merely to do no harm, but to do ,864 obtained the first Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship and the good-to devote your life to the highest ends of living-this \viII help you to Crosse Theological Scholarship. In November, 1864, he was rise to higher things; so that to you, whatever He may be to others, the elected a Fellow of the College. In the year 1867 he was Merciful may be merciful, the True may be true, and the Pitiful may be the successful candidate for the Kaye prize, and his Essay was compassionate. published in 1869 under the title 'The Gospel in the Law; J. E. SANDYS. a critical examination of the citations from the Old Testament YUly, 1881. in the New,' a volume of 356 pages, dedicated to the Hebrew Lecturer of the College, Mr. Mason. In 1874 he was appointed Lecturer in Theology. In the same year appeared his next work, 'The Dirge of Coheleth in Ecclesiastes xii, discussed and literally interpreted.' In 1877, the Syndics of the Univer sity Press published his 'Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, in Hebrew and English, with critical and illustrative notes.' At the close of ,880 he completed his "Introduction to the Ancient and Modern Geometry of Oonics," an enlarged edition of his previous work on 'Geometrical Conics' (1863), including an elaborate dissertation on the history of Greek Geometry. He has also contributed articles to the Cambridge Philosophical Journal, and is joint editor of the Messmger of Mallzematz'cs. For a short time, about 1869, he was one of the' curates at St. Andrew's the Great, his fe1l0w·-curate at the time being another Fellow of the College, Mr. Pearson, now Bishop of Newcastle. He was an Examiner for the Theological Tripos in 1872, 1879 and r880. In November, 1880, he was elected a Member of the Council of the Senate. He is also one of the Syndics of the University Library and a Member of the Boards of Oriental and Theological Studies. It is generally under- 480 OU?' Chrom'cle. Our Cfz.rom'cle. 481 stood, that the elaborate and systematic scheme of Theological studiis lam van'�s consecratae, ad dignz'tatzs tanlae fastigium nuper instruction drawn last-mentioned body and publis . up by the hed eve�tu.m, n:on alzter. ea qZl:a par est re ve-:entza conlemplari, quam ii . in The Reporter for March 17, r 876, pp. 3 19-324, was in a qUI, zpsz zn re ducfzs vallzbus 71zorantes, Illos procul admirantur, qui large measure the work of Mr. Taylor, who was then Secretary in ardua Alpium culmina, huzc ipsi non ignota, zsdenz e vallibus of the Board. In J 876 he was elected an honorary Fellow of a evaserunt. , King's College, London, and from 1874 to 1877, cted as an Plum ne loquamur monmt veiera illa verba lz'bn' a doctore Examiner at Lampeter College. In the recent revision of OUr nosl1'o quondam edili, verba doclon's z'llz'ur Rabbz'nzCi, 'qui quum College Statutes, extending from June, 1877, to December ae/alem lo/am inler sapzentes eglsset, nihil sibi invenisse visus est 1878, he took an active part, being a Member of both th� homini pulchn'us nz.' quam szlenliu Committees appointed on June 5, 1877 and March 23, 1878 Mr. Courtney, M.P., has been appointed Under-Secretary in the c�)Urs� ?f the deliberations of the Governing BOdy unde� of the UnIversItIes Act of 1877. Lastly, he was appointed in State for the Colonies. 1879, with the late Master and Mr. Bonney, one of the three Mr. Smith has been appointed Steward of the College, in Commissioners to represent the College in relation to the place of Mr. Banney, who, we regret to say, is shortly going making of Statutes by the Cambridge University Commission. out of residence. Mr. Bonney will be much missed by At a Congregation held on June 14th, the day of the recita his personal friends, and will be gratefully remembered by all tion of Prize Exercises, the newly-elected Master proceeded who were under him as Junior Dean or as Tutor of the College, to the degree of D.D., jztre dignitaNs. In presenting him to as well as by those who had the advantage of attending his the Vice-Chancellor, the Public Orator began with a brief lectures. eulogy on the late Master, in the course of which reference was made to the distinction with which Dr. Bateson had filled Mr. Garnett has been appointed a College Lecturer in the office of Orator for the nine years between 1848 and 1857 ; Natural Sciences; and Mr. McAlister, on Medical Subjects, to the manner in which, animo neque trepzdo neque te1lZerano, he including the general supervision of the work of Medical had for four-and-twenty years discharged the duties of his Students at the College. position as Master of a great College, and also to his valuable We congratulate Mr. Freeman on the completion of his services as chairman of several important governing bodies, catalogue of the College Pictures, the last instalment of which including that of Shrewsbury, his own former school. He had appears in our present number. The College has recently thus been one who delzoeratzonibus plurimzs plun'rnam received a portrait of the Rev. William Abbot, Senior Wrangler l?tcem attulerat; one whom cofzdie tot annos, velut zn rerum natura in qS4, Fellow of the College from 1755 to 1768. cerium al£quid nz coNdianum, COII petpelZlumque, quasi solts cursu lemplabanzur; quo sole noslro subito extz'ncio, Mr. Freeman has accepted the office of Pro-Proctor for the stafz'm omnes intellexi mus quantum lumen !)ccz'dzsset. Dr. Bateson's successor was then coming year. introduced in the following terms: Mr. H. S. Foxwell has been elected Professor of Political Hodze vero lanN vz"n' successol'em Academiae ?lOInI'/U i1lbem1ls Economy at University College, London. His professorial salvere. Saiula17Z1Is vI'rum prudmtem, Academiae loiz'us C ndlzo duties, however, are happily consistent with his continl,ling � nuper adscriptum, virum de sui Colleg ii str:tutz's e17le1ldandl� be,?te . . 1Iun'tum. Salutamus virum non /tumamonous tantum tz/te1'ls to reside in College as Lecturer in Moral Sciences. Z1lt DutwlZ, sed 17lathematiczs praesertz' The Rev. C. W. E. Body, Fellow and Lecturer in Theology,lll studizs zltSigne!ll et !ltdae�r/ll!l C? . lla llIam zllam lz'nguae and Curate of Chesterton, hassacrae been puitia appointed i"usl7"ell Principal�. ratons of sa�n � quae Eccelesiastzs Hbntm elaltdtf, qUlS tam sobne es� mlcrp,:elalus, Trinity College, Toronto, in the place of the Rev. George ! locos In ,,� uzs entdztius explzeavzi? Ohm veiens es/a17lenll Whitaker. His marriage with Miss Perry, sister of the Vicar zde. 1l nupern ,t eslamenlo laudalos sU1Ilmo z'udzclo examznaveral; � ,! of Chesterton, took place on July 12th. He will be much . Ills/ona. geolllein recentzora� quae dam n,'al" " ematzeorll lll illz'm/a. . cum ae . " . . missed both in his College and in his Parish. Ilzeo Iogl, bOlll. ' lIla!t/e-I antzquae conzun:xz/ . Boni autem , IUSZ fiallor,. esl et antlqlla et llOva I1l Ier sese Several members of the College have been remarkably malzcl.,, b om. d emqu" e 11laglslri ' 'S . ,. ' nova all tz'qlt• , antiqua novzs, ammo mge1l1to accol/l- successful in some of the recent Examinations of the University compa1'are' . . ' · llo . '1' qUI'd que, SIVt all t1- ?nOd are' et sme I1 pal'll'uTIl' studio , Oi>tllllllm of London. In the Classical branch;zovum, of ill the llOnore M.A. debito Examination,habere Mr. Dougan . : ljuum s;'ve wins the Gold Medal, and the degree of D. Se. malola,, b 110 zs' allzora' llOd/e has been attained by Mr. Larmor (for Electricity, treated mathe Tan/a vero arglt11zmta nobiS . ' saplell' . ,lae placet potius 1l0b/��, vi1'li/lt e fa/lmlls vitae se lll/la,. matically), and by L. H. Edmunds, L. H. Hart, and D. W. Our CkromCle. 483 482 Uur Ohromele. . M.A.-A. D. Clarke, C. E. F. Hose (BishoP of Singapore) D.D.-G. W. R. Hannam, J. A. N. Hibbert, Samways (for Electricity, treated experimentally). The last C. B. Fletcher, W. Gripper, Cooper, J. V. T. Landor, F. W. S. Price, three names also the Kikuchi (by proxy), J. appear under head of 'Magnetism, treated Dairoku Yasuynki 18th: E. 1- LL.1I1/. H. Thompson. June experimentally,' and they are the only successful candida H. St. J. Wilding. M.A. and tes for Merivale. the degree of D. Sc. in that branch. Brown, W. W. English, C. , Dr. A. Schuster, who has resided in the University for June, I88J. the COLLEGE EXAMINATIONS, last few years as Fellow-Commoner of this College, and has been engaged in physical investigations at the Cavendish Laboratory Classics. YEAR. has been appointed Professor of Mathematics at Owens College THIRD YEAR. FIRST Manchester. : First Class. First Class. Tucker Smith, H. W. W. J. Lee, B.A., S.cholar Christie Moss of the College, has been. the Scholarship of 100 guineas, offered by the Benchers of the Hardman awarded Inner Temple for the Student who should pass the best Examination in Equity. l'r:fathematics. FIRST YEAR. SECOND YEAR. We have much pleasure in recording that J. THJRD YEAR. C. Moss, Craven First Class. Fzrst Class, First Class. Scholar, has won Sir William Browne's Medals for Mathews, G. H. the Greek Johnson, A. R. Yeo Hogg Ode, the Latin Ode, and the Greek Epigram. This is the first McAulay Parker McFlIdand instance since the foundation of the Browne Medals in Roberts, S. O. 1775, Brill Serople Newham in which the medals for the Greek and Latin Ode have on three Harker, A. successive occasions been Posnett Gifforcl awarded to the same candidate. Walker S. Knight, J. T. He has also won the Powis Medal for Latin Hexameters. Hughes, F: The first Winchester Reading Prize has been awarded to Natural Sciences. J. Russell, Scholar of the College. (In alphabet£cal order). FIR�T YEAR. SECOND YEAR. THIRD YEAR. We are glad to hear that F. Terry, LL.B., Scholar of the Fipt Class. First Clast. F,rst Class. College, has succeeded in obtaining one of the Whewell Edmuncls Clementson Pagan Goodman Scholarships for this year; also that J. A. Fleming, B.A., Samways Love Roberts, T. Scholar. of the College, has been elected to the Professorship Weld on of PhYSICS and Mathematics at University College, Nottingham. Theology. Mr. A. Caldecott, B.A., J. E. Marr, B.A., and E. J. C. (In alphabetical order). College, have been lecturing under SECOND YEAR. Morton, RA., of this THIRD YEAR. the University Extension Scheme during the past session; First Class. First Class. Mr. Caldecott on English Literature, Mr. Marr on Geology, and Clark, Bennett G. W. Mr. Morton on Astronomy. Jones, T. J. been admitted to the Degree of The following have Law. M.A., &c., during the Easter Term :- THIRD YEAR. : lf A.-G. C. Alle , J. April 22nd: MA.-E. P. Ro,?per. May 5th t: � . w ll m. First Class. ll A. C. Cnck, J. Dlxon, F. FIsher, J . H. G i i Brownbill, J. Campbe , . . Mackle, C. A. MouU, H. C. Pmsent, A. L. Peiris. F. W. Horny, T. Lattimer, J.H. . H. Thornton, F. W. Wallis, W. tman T. Stevens, F. L. Thompson, \V. Pi May 19th: A:f.A. . W. I-I. Thornton. G. Wilhams. LL M• . -R. Nevill, -: Prizemim. Griffiths, E. Kelly, R. H. Marsh, A. W. Momene, Greek Testament. E. Carlisle, J. R. Davies, A. Hebrew. Spokes, C. J. C. Touzel, W. F. A. S. Reid, H. Reynolcls, J. H. 31'd year. I Bennett. J. H. l)lant, If:f A.-S. year. Bennett. A. R. Wise man. June 2nd: . 3rd 2 Russell J. Willan, H. A. Williams, Russell, J. " S. Houghton, J. H. Ilelancl, " Cla'rk, G. W. VV'. G. Hulse, G. F. Hastll1gs, F. T. 2nd year. Bousfield, F. Whetstone. 2nd year. Jones, T. J. J. RendJe, H. E. Trotter, W. " Jones, T. J. (by proxy), E. M. Price, A. h D.D.-C. Taylor (11faster). June 16t : LL.1If.-H. T. Kemp. June 14th: OU?' Chrom'cle. 485 484 Out' Ch?'onzc/e. Proper St'zars. Englt'sh Essay. Readt'ng. Knight, J , Cleaver T. 2nd yea?'. Tanner Sandford, F. Semple Knight, A, T. Chapman, . 'Veils, F. A. A. G Mason ing Rapson Whit Wrt'ght's Prt'zemen, wt'tk£100 for the year. Gifford Mathema • tics. Classt'cs. Natural Science. Theo!ogy. Yeo Tucker Samways Bennett and Open Exhibt'tt'ons. Johnson, A. R. Stout Minor ScholarsMps Mathews, . School . G. B Smith, H. W. Pattinson, J. A. (Manchester Grammar ) £70 Minor Sc h oa1 lSh' IpS. Stanwell, H. B. (Shrewsbury) } ughes' Pn'zemen. Crook, F. W. (Perse School, Cambridge) ) £50 for 3 years. Tucker Yeo Hensley, E. H (Sherborne School . School) } Lewis, H. S. (for Hebrew; King's College ( d t Scholarships. Sir J. Her.!chel'.1 Prt'zefor Astronomy. )} £50 Minor rd�����: i-r��::, ��:;:�;2te Yeo for years. Clarke,i::��t: E. k T. (Shrewsbury), £40 4 . (St. Peter's School, York) ) 50 £or 2 years. Chadwick, A. tuition { £ Foundatt'on Scholars. G. (Manchester School and private Roby, A. for 4 ye.�rs. THIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. Grammar School), £30 Kerr, J. (Manchester for 3 years. Peiris W. H. (CheltenhamCollege), £30 Edmunds Mathews, G. B. Kynaston, College), '£20. Walker Hughes, Mllrray, J. R. (Lancashire Independent °· F. S. Smith, H. W. Natural Sciences Exhibition, £5 Weldon Love 'Vilson H. (The LeysSchool, Cambridge), McAulay Newham Posnett CLUB. Roberts, S. O. LADY MARGARET BOAT Roberts, T. Stout Owing to the institution, by the University Tanner The May Races. it was decided of Tripos Examinations in May, authorities, B. C., held in the Lent Exhz'bitt'oners. Meeting of the C. U. at a General Races, that they ) anticipate the usual date of these I. (£30. Term, to The weather certainly THIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. FIRST YEAR. with the new Triposes. might not clash of the change, some Bennett Clark, to shew its disapprobation G. W. Goodman did its best and the last positively Moss Jones, T. J. the evenings being decidedly moist, Samways of Stout drenching. it Tucker in a ship built for them by Logan j Yeo The 1st Boat rowed been for !he crew j and, had it not was undoubtedly too large bump. n. (£25.) certainly have s.cored another THIRD YEAR. FIRST YEAR. for this defect, they would Friday, May 13th. Brill Christie The Races began on Pagan Hogg start, nearly The 3rd Boat, gaining from the Parker Mathews, G. B. First Night. hele Magdalene spurted and made their bump at Grassy, rowed Ditton, where they were fairly Ill. (£20.) managed to defer it till gained on THIRD YEAR. SECOND YEAR. at a quick stroke, rapidly FIRST YEAR. down. 2nd Boat, starting them at them at Grassy, and bumped Harker, A. J ohnson, A. R. Gitford 3rd Trinity 11, overlapped to Jessen the McAulay a good start, managed Hodgson McFarland Ditton. I st Boat, with and at Ditton Sandford, F. Smith, H. W. and Trinity Hall I, distance between themselves drew slightly away, length j after this, Hall . corner had gained a IV. (£15 ) almost their distance ahead. THIRD YEAR. SE(!;OND YEAR. and finished 2nd Bo t �ump�d 1st Atmore Davies 3rd Boat rowed over. � Second Night. over, gammg slightly Exham Dodd at 1st Post. 1st Boat rowed Horne Weils, W. Trinity IU the Railway Bridge. which bumped Caius I, near rugby on Hall I, CC VOL. XI. . 486 Our Chro'l'uCle. Our Chronicle. 487 Thzrd Night. 3rd Boat rowed over. 2nd Boa1: bumped The Freshmen's Sculls, for which there were 4 entries, were Emmanuel I, at Railway Bridge. This was the most exciting rowed May 27-28. race of the week, as all down the Long Reach we kept over lapping First heat--:Friday: Emmanuel, . while they . , ... 0 were only a few inches off Clare. 1st Station ... F. A. Wells . I st Boat rowed considerably better .. this night, and after a most 2nd " ....F. C. Marshall . . I plucky race bumped Caius I by Charon's Ferry. A good race; Wells going well and steering fairly, gained Fourlh Night. rapidly on Marshal!, and at the Plough Reach was some 3rd Boat were unfortunate in loosing the services 20 yards to the good; here Marshall ran into the bank, but of their stroke through illness, and in having con yards of sequently to row pushed out again and went on; Wells, when within 10 with an untrained man in the boat, yet when bumped the winning post, and being quite 200 yards ahead, ran into by Ohrist's they 'were within a I length of st Trinity IV. he 2nd Boat caught the bank, where, in spite of all his efforts to get afloat, Clare soon after entering the Long Reach. 1st Boat rowed ov,er. remained whilst Marshall finished the race. Second heat: Fifth Night. I 2nd Boat rowed ..•. over. st Boat gained I st Station E. C. Andrews .... I rapidly on I, Hall and 'at Ditton ...• corner were only half-a-Iength 2nd " .... J. H. Merrifield o off; beyond this, neither were able to gain any advantage. Merrifield getting off with a good start, gained rapidly up Szxlh Night. 1st Post Reach, but fell off in the Gut, and Andrews drew away The Boats started in a perfect storm of rain. 2nd Boat rowed to his full distance and won as he liked, Merrifield giving up over. 1st Boat pressed Hall, as before, but did not catch them. at Grassy. Final heat-Saturday: The crews were :_ J st Station . ... E. C. Andrews ....0 .... 1 Ist Boat. st. lb. 2nd " '" .F. C. Marshal! W. R. Kinipple ••••••• ••••• •••••••• when (bow) 10 10 Marshall gained rapidly until within 30 yards of Andrews, •. 2 W. C. Curtis ....•• . . ,...... 9 1 0 he ran into the bank. Meanwhile the latter making the mo'st J. S. Clementson ...... 3 ...... 10 10 had got as far as Plough Reach when he to •••••• of his opportunity, 4 G. M. Kingtson •• ••.•••• , .•.•. .•••• 10 10 quite close, there .••• .••. Marshall coming up A. F. Green •••••. • .••••.• into the bank, and 5 •• ...••• went H. 12 6 Sandford ...... left him for the rest of the course, thus winning easily. ' . Il W. P. •• .••• , •••••• 7 Mayor ••.•••. •• •. .• •. 10 10� 2 J. J. ••• ••• •••••• •••••• Pairs, May 24th. Only Lister (str�ke) •. Baleman on Tuesday, •••. The rowed F. L. Muirhead 10 10 (cox) ...... , ...... 7 IZ boats entered. W. R. Kin!pple*'} 1st Station-(bow) .... 0 2nd Boat. !t. lb. " " (sir.) W O. CurtlS J G. D. Haviland ( o ) •••••••••••••••••••• b w " 9 13 W. P. M yor% 2nd Station-(bow) .. E. •. .••• '" .• � 2 Hinchcliffe ••• .••.•...... I .•.•. 10 5 " " (sir.) Whltfield . C. F. 3 A. Hawkins " .••• ••• .•• ••. ••• . ..••.••• .• 10 9 • Steerer. J 4 L. H. Edmunds •• ..•• ..••••••...... ••. . 11 7 5 W. F.Lund ...... Il 8 The latter crew, starting at a faster stroke, and steering much 6 A. F. ...••• ..••. .•.•. Williams •••• •••••. 12 2 better than their opponents, soon took the lead which they T. Clarke •...••••.•.•• •••••••• 7 ..••••. .•.• o C. F. Whitfie1d 11 maintained throughout, eventually winning by a couple of (stroke) ...... 1 0 2 Ll. L10yd (cox) ; ••••• •••••• •.• ••••••.•• " 8 10 lengths. . 3rd Boat. st. lb. CRICKET CLUB. •• •. A. T. Knight (bow) •••••• .••••••••• .••• 9 6 Exham. •. .•• ••.•.• Captain-Po G. 2 F. Looker ••• •••••• •••.•. .••• Presidmt-W, F, Smith. 10 4 J. Co1man. •. .. Stcretary- R. ••....••. . .••.••.••• .•.• Hon. T1'easurer-F. Gaddum. Hon. 3 B. Davies 10 7 D. 4 T. Cleworth •. ••. ...•.••.••• .•.•••.••••••• 10 ••••..•.... .••••..•. .• Committee: 5 H. Holman .••. .••. 11 W. •••••••. ..•. ••. .••.•..•. . Chapman. 6 H. Dodd .•. 10 10g F. L. Thompson, P. T. Wrigley, R. Thorman, R. Spencer, E. S. •••••• J. H. Edwards ••• ..•••.••••• .•. 7 ..• 11 6 K. M. Eicke (stroke) ...... Cricket Club ...... Il 4 We must congratulate the Committee of the W. E. ••••• ••• •••••• Facey (cox) •.•••• .• " 8 4 upon the success which has attended their endeavours to 488 Our C!�ronz'cle. Our Chronz'cle. 489 increase the popularity of the Club. Instead of 4-2 Members ST. JOHN'S DEBATING SOCIETY. as last year, we now number ISO Members, who seem fully to appreciate not only the Oricket but also the Lawn Tennis, The attendance at the Meetings held in the earlier part of which they are now able to obtain on the Oricket field. the Lent Term was satisfactory, the Debates were of more than We also have to congratulate ourselves upon having had average interest, and were in some cases protracted to an three men playing for the University during the May Term. unusually late hour. Towards the end of the Term, however, On the 27th of June, we were represented at Lord's by Spencer. owing to the more scant attendance, and to the comparative Our Eleven, up to the time of writing this, has not suffered unanimity of the speakers, the Debates were less vigorously defeat, but with Exham, Gaddum and Spencer so often away sustained. they have to do all they kriow to prevent their colours being The experiment made of holding Debates in the May Term lowered. We hope, however, that by the end of the season we has been only partially successful, but the exceptional shortness shall be able, as in the two preceding seasons,. of the May Term of this year will partly account for this result. having lost a match. The following Motions have been discussed since our last to boast of not notice: " That in the opinion of tbis House tbe Chinese Opium Trade is immoral ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE LAWN TENNIS CLUB. and unsound in policy, and that immediate steps should be taken towards its Aboljtion." Proposed by E. N. Coulthard-Canied. At the General Meeting held at the end of the Lent Term, "That in tbe opinion of tbis House a Liberal Measure of Home Rule the following were elected to serve on the Committee for the should be granted to Ireland." Proposed by J. Spencer Hill-Lost. "That in the opinion of this House a comprehensive scheme of Land May Term: E. S. Chapman, W. S. Sherrington, A. Fitz-Herbert, J. H. Matthews, and W. Bissett, Hon. SIC. Law Reform would tend to the welfare of tbe Nation." Proposed by Only two matches J. David-Carried (unanimously). have been A. played; in the first, with the "Grasshoppers,". "That this House approves of the action of the present Government in we were well beaten, but in the second, with t. reversing, as far as possible, the Foreign Policy of their Predecessors." .. Mayflies," we managed to wipe out our defeat of last year. Propost:d by O. Rigby-Carried. he Trinity "That in the opinion of this House the principle of the Irish Land Bill The general play of the Club has shewn a marked improvement during the season. now before Parliament is opposed to the fundamental rights of Property, and is detrimental to the true interest of Ireland." Proposed by F. Barnett A series A. of Single Ties for Members of the Club has been Lost. played off,-the first prize falling eventually to F. E. . Wilkes, and the second to J. H. Haviland. The following were the Officers for the May Term: President :--G. C. M. Smith. Vice-President :-A. G. Chapman. The Olub is to be congratulated on its good financial position; Treasunr :-F. L. Muirhead. 'I Secretary:-F. S. Hughes. its numerical strength, mustering as it does. ISO Members, is also satisfactory. The following are elected for the October Term: President :-F. S. Hug-hes Vice-President :-A. G. Cbapman. 1 reasurer :-F. L. Muirhead. Secretary :-J. R. Tanner. EAGLES' LAWN TENNIS CLUB. I President-F. L. Thompson .. MUSICAL SOCIETY. Hon. Secretary-R. H. Landor. I Treasurer-F. Sandford This Club has the use of some Courts on the Cricket field, The College Musical Society, formed in October last, gave and Members, during the unusually J fine weather of the last a Concert in the Guildhall, on Saturday Evening, May 4th. Term fully enjoyed the advantages thus afforded them. The Programme consisted of Spohr's "Hymn to St. Cecilia," The Annual Ties were played off with the following the Recitative and Aria Clle faro, from Gluck's "Orpheus," results: and lVIendelssohn's lVIusic to Racine's tragedy, "Athalie." The Single Tie ...... W. R. LeFanu. Chorus consisted entirely of Members of the College Society; 5T. C. Ward. of the Dou bl e T·le ...... while the Band was chiefly composed of ·lVIembers ) J. H.Havilan d. University Musical Society, under the able leadership of Herr There were seventeen entries for the Single and twelve for R. Gompertz, to whose kind and able assistance much of the the Double Ties. success of the performance must be ascribed. The first Matches were also played against the "Grasshoppers" and Soprano and Contralto Solo parts in "Athalie" were taken by the "Mayflies," the victory in eithtr case falling to our Yates and Miss Lilian Yates, with great ability; the opponents. Miss second Soprano part was sung by Master Thomas, one of lhe 90 Our Ch?'onzC!e. 4 Du?' Ch?'onzCle. 491 College Choristers, and it is only bare justice to him to' say that , 2. That this Society consist only of Members of St. John'S he was quite equal to his fellow soloists; and the Trio with 'College. Chorus CH Hearts feel that love thee " ), in which the three solo singers joined, owed its enthusiastic encore, in no small 3· That the Society consist of P�rforming and Honorary degree, to the excellent effect with which the three voices Members. That Candidates for electIOn as PerforminO' Mem blended together; though the careful and expressive way in 'bers having been proposed and seconded, be ballote for at which the Chorus was sung, and the delicacy with which the a general Meeting, one black ball in four to exclude;ct any Band accompanied it, had, no doubt, their full share in the Member of the College becoming an Honorary Member on impression it produced on the audience. The well-known payment of the Terminal Subscription. March, so frequently heard as a Voluntary in College Chapels, 4· That the affairs of the Society be conducted by a was also encored, but, perhaps wisely, not repeated. The Committee of seven, including Treasurer, Secretary and illustrative verse was recited by Mr. J. Russell, who performed Libarian, with power to elect its own Chairman, who shall also his difficult, important, and not very grateful task, with the Meetings. That ive the preside at the General F Members at least utmost care and success. Miss Lilian Yates sang .of the Committee, including the Officers, be Performing beautiful Aria of Gluck, with much dramatic force and power; Members of the Society. and here also> the accompaniment of the strings left nothing to be desfred. 5· That the Committee be elected terminally; that for the Last, but not least, we wish especiaITy to call attention to October Term, at the first General Meeting of that term; those the able way in which Dr. Garrett, our well-known Organist, for the Lent and Easter Terms, at the last General Meeting of conducted the Concert; as a ship must run aground without a the preceding term. That at General Meetings the presence of pilot, so too, we fear, would the Concert have been wrecked, 15 Members be required to form a quorum. but for his untiring patience and help during the rehearsals, and his excellent conductorship on the 14th of May. The fine 6. That notice of all General Meetings be posted on the way in which he quickened the time during the three render screens at least three days beforehand. That no motion be ings of the Chorus, " Holy, holy, ever blessed Lord," struck us, brought before any General Meeting unless posted by the Secre as an exceedingly beautiful part of the programme; and the tary with the names of the proposer and seconder, at least light and shade all through the singing, both Chorus and 24 hours before such meeting. Quartet, were exceptionally lovely. 7. That no motion affecting any rule of the Society be In fine, the Concert was a complete success, and we passed without the consent of two-thirds of the Members earnestly hope that the Musical Society, which has with it so present. auspiciously begun its career, may become a settled and prosperous Colleg-e S. That the Treasurer submit a statement of accounts at institution. That, hitherto, it has been thoroughly well officered, its present success amply testifies; its each of the General Meetings specified in Rule 5. future well-being will depend mainly on the regularity with which Musical Members attend the weekly rehearsals. The 9. That no payments be made from the funds of the Society Officers consider their positions as something more than without the sanction of the Committee. honorary titles, and. many members of the College, who are be 6/- for Performing not able to assist the SOCiety musically, have willingly become 10. That the terminal subscription day and 4/- for Honorary Members, due on t�e fi;st Honorary Members, and have thus· shewn their practical Members, paid hiS sub-. of Term. That any Member who shall not have interest in its success. of the e m be The Committee for the Term, who were selected without scription at the end of the first two-thirds 1 {le h as of the Society untI alteration from the Lent Term, were as follows ;_ posted, and cease to be a Member E. paid all arrears. Lib1·arian-F. Ainger. nesday Hon. Treasurer-R. B. Davies. I I-Ion. Secretary-So T. Winkley. . he Id every Wed 1 I. That Meetings for rehearsal be . J ed to G. R. Alston. P. R. Cluistie. bers.bem low T. C. Ward. C. F. Whitfield. in full term; none but performing Mem ny of the ed to smg 1 take part. That no Member be allow : in num e de erta Rules of' the Soczidy. Society's Concert unless he shall have att � and by the settle� be� :reh I. THAT this society be called the "ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE ber of rehearsals, the number to be MUSICAL SOCIETY." Committee. 492 Our Chronz"cle. THE THESPIDS. IN spite of all the various Clubs which are in such a flourishing condition in the Oollege, room has yet been found for another. We refer to "The Thespids," a Olub which, under due sanction, came into existence a little more than a year ago, for the purpose of holding Dramatic Recitations only. In a short notice like the present it would be out of place to enter into details; let it suffice to say that the writer has been present at four very first class recitals, at all of which the Members have managed to adapt themselves to the dis advantages of performing in a small room with astonishing pail}S, seconded by a most careful study of their parts; and it seems likely that if the new Members continue, as their pre decessors have begun, the Club cannot fail to be a success, and that its perfomances will be eagerly looked forward to by their ( guests. END OF VOL. XI. �R.INT.ED BY W. MBTCALFI! ND A SON, TRINITY S'fRJ::IT, cAMBRtnO!!, Francis Turner,whose portait is in the dining-room of the Master's Lodge. books of Homer's Odyssey. See T. W. Barlow's lifemoir of William It is thought by some to resemble the nonconformist divine Stephen ih'oome, 8vo., Manchester and London, 1855. Charnock, born 1628, died 1680. Compare the portrait at a later age, B.D., 2 vols., fol., DR. HAWKINS, by B_ Orchard, 1682. engraved as frontispiece to the Works of Ste. Charnock, , 3rd ed., London, 1699. Canvass, about 29 by 24 in. The words " B. Orchard 1682 . are at back of picture. "Hawkins, M.D. in Robes, �.length, by B. Orchard " [R.M.]. OTHER PICTURES IN THE COLLEGE. Wears a scarlet gown, seentingly edged with white, open 50 as to shew a buff coat with large metal buttons, white bands, long flowing wig. Seated. In the Ne w Chapel Tr(J7Zsept is a large canvass picture half-length, looks to right of picture. by Raphael Mengs representing the reception of the Dr. Hawkins is not included in Munk's Roll of the Royal College of body of our Lord after it had been taken down fr om the Physicians. There was a Galfr. Hawkins, Trinity, A.B. 1665. Kings, A.M. The picture was the gift in 1841 of the late Hon. 1669, who may possibly have migrated a second time to St. john's. cross. Robert Henry Clive, M.P. and was the altar-piece of EDWARD BENLOWES, ESQUIRE, by S. Wa iter, 1650' Benefactor. the old Chapel. Bursar's rooms there are canvass por Canvass, about 29 by 24 inches. The words " S. WaIter fecit 1650 " at In tlte Senzor large the back. Seated in red-backed chair, wears a black gown, white collar and traits of A lexander Pop e and Jo lm Locke, and two cuffs ; supports a large open book on the left arm ; the left hands seems to hold book, right hand points with forefinger at the page. Head is turned • Cooper, Memodals of Cambridge, Vo!. n., p. IS!. el', M.D. t," next before over right shoulder. Middle age, own flowing· hair. Half-length. " Mr. t R. Masters has entered in his Catalogue " "V all r "V e cannot fiud Edward Benlowes, with a book in his hand " [RJI'I.]. He was the Autho "Serj eant Benlowes," and " Hawkins J',1.D. by Orchard." A.B. 1701, A.M:. of a remarkable English poem called Tlteopltila, or, Love's Sacrifice, London this picture. There was an Edmund WaHer of St. John'S, Munk's Roll of the Royal 1652, folio. A copy presented by him is in the College Library. The li05, and M.D. 1712. He is not included in engraved portrait of tlle Author, fo llowing the title page, closely resemblc5 College of Physicians.