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An Enquiry Into The Origin And Meaning Of Several Cant Terms And Phrases In Use In The University Of Cambridge.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF SEVERAL CANT TERMS AND PHRASES IN USE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE .
To the learned the Graduates and Undergraduates of the University of Cambridge . " Omne ignotum pro magnifco habendum . " i . GENTLEMEN , TAKING it for granted none of jr 0 u are unwilling to impart to otherssummisse sciscitantibusthe knowledge j'ou
your-, , selves possess , I feel myself emboldened candidly to state my embarrassments , and to solicit plenary information . ; Business lately required my attendance at Cambridge for a few days . The afternoon , before my return thence , I accepted the invitation of a quondam Yorkshire schoolfellow , and agreed to . dine with him , in college , at his rooms .
Accordingly I went , and found a numerous party assembled , on purpose , I flatter myself , to welcome the friend of their entertainer . Perceiving them to be young men of the University , 1 expected we should all largely enjoy " the feast of reason , and the flow of soul ; ' - and felt an unusual gaiety and satisfaction on the occasion . Now , gentlemen , the conversation which occurred during the evening is the cause of my present address ; and I . shall esteem nyself seriously
indebted to the politeness of any person who will condescend to explain the orig in as well as meaning of the subjoined terms aiid phrases . I shall beg leave first to introduce the company to your notice ., concealing their names from obvious motives of decorum . One was a Harry Soph ; another a fellow-commoner and senior soph , and occasionally jocularly called an empty bottle : whilste contraa bottle
, , decanted was , from time to time , denominated a fellow-commoner . We had also a junior sopb and pensioner ; he , nevertheless , talked much of his independence , of his having refused exhibitions , and [ what gave me no good opinion of his learning ] declared he had no pretensions to either scholarship or fellowship . A jolly'fat fellow , by Nature formed " to lard the lean earth as he walked along , " was a
non ens forsooth ! and had not yet been matriculated . Another was a sizer and questionist . Several had taken their degrees , and were either plucked , senior optimh , junior optimes , senior wranglers , or junior wranglers ; for which honours , it seems , they had all kept their acts . Some of these Jiad their names printed on what they styled a tripos , -which they
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Enquiry Into The Origin And Meaning Of Several Cant Terms And Phrases In Use In The University Of Cambridge.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF SEVERAL CANT TERMS AND PHRASES IN USE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE .
To the learned the Graduates and Undergraduates of the University of Cambridge . " Omne ignotum pro magnifco habendum . " i . GENTLEMEN , TAKING it for granted none of jr 0 u are unwilling to impart to otherssummisse sciscitantibusthe knowledge j'ou
your-, , selves possess , I feel myself emboldened candidly to state my embarrassments , and to solicit plenary information . ; Business lately required my attendance at Cambridge for a few days . The afternoon , before my return thence , I accepted the invitation of a quondam Yorkshire schoolfellow , and agreed to . dine with him , in college , at his rooms .
Accordingly I went , and found a numerous party assembled , on purpose , I flatter myself , to welcome the friend of their entertainer . Perceiving them to be young men of the University , 1 expected we should all largely enjoy " the feast of reason , and the flow of soul ; ' - and felt an unusual gaiety and satisfaction on the occasion . Now , gentlemen , the conversation which occurred during the evening is the cause of my present address ; and I . shall esteem nyself seriously
indebted to the politeness of any person who will condescend to explain the orig in as well as meaning of the subjoined terms aiid phrases . I shall beg leave first to introduce the company to your notice ., concealing their names from obvious motives of decorum . One was a Harry Soph ; another a fellow-commoner and senior soph , and occasionally jocularly called an empty bottle : whilste contraa bottle
, , decanted was , from time to time , denominated a fellow-commoner . We had also a junior sopb and pensioner ; he , nevertheless , talked much of his independence , of his having refused exhibitions , and [ what gave me no good opinion of his learning ] declared he had no pretensions to either scholarship or fellowship . A jolly'fat fellow , by Nature formed " to lard the lean earth as he walked along , " was a
non ens forsooth ! and had not yet been matriculated . Another was a sizer and questionist . Several had taken their degrees , and were either plucked , senior optimh , junior optimes , senior wranglers , or junior wranglers ; for which honours , it seems , they had all kept their acts . Some of these Jiad their names printed on what they styled a tripos , -which they