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An Enquiry Into The Origin And Meaning Of Several Cant Terms And Phrases In Use In The University Of Cambridge.
shewed me . It was a long piece of whited-brown paper , like that ou which our commonest ballads are printed . On one side were the names of the young gentlemen , on the other were two Latin compositions in hexameter verse . This tripos was published the sixth of March 1794 . The motto for the first production was taken from Homer , and was this :
Ovrog y _ ' - ¦ ¦ 5 Afi £ o 7 _ fov , fia < 7 i \ v 7 ); t' cyaSo ; xp « T _ fo ; T * a '^ fOiTDj . ¦ That for the second was from Sophocles , as follows : ' Ev _}' , O CTO p ^ JfOJ 0 SOJ 2 xi ; 4- «; tKaiia Aci / xo ; s ^ 9 iros ¦ Sro . ti . )
' Ttp ' a xsvara .. OEDIP . TYRAN . V . 37 . The verses are very good , and the sentiments truly liberal . The general discourse , being of a very desultory nature , I can only give j'ou those detached passages which struck riiy notice as more peculiarly uncommon ., i shall continue to mark the parts alluded to in Italics .
Soon after the cloth ivas removed one gentleman exclaimed : "D—n those Retrosl My Jip brought one in this morning ; faith ! and told me I wasfocussed . 1 resolved in this dilemma to smite my tutor ; but , as I lately came over bim for a good round sum , I was forced to run the ri g upon bim . Luckily I crammed bim so well , that at last honest Jollux tipped me tbe cole . " Another gentleman entertained us with
saying , that he had just been convened in the combination ( qu . comminution ) room ; , and was very near rustication , merely for kicking up a rou after a beakering party-. " Soho , Jack ! " briskly rejoined another , " almost presented \ Vitli a travelling fellowship ? very nigh being sent to grass , hey ? " . - I soon discovered that they had nick-names for the inhabitants cOllectiyely of their several colleges . Thussome were Jesuitsothers
, , Christians ; some Johniail bogs , others Trinity bulldogs ; some Clareball greyhounds , others again , Sidney owls ; et sic deinceps . I remarked also , that they frequently used the words to cut , and to sport , in senses to me totally unintelligible . A man had been cut in chapel , cut at afterfioon lectures , cut in his tutor ' s rooms , cut at a concertcut at a ball & c . SoonhoweverI was told of menvice versdivho
, , , , , ^ cut a figure , cut chapel , cut gates , cut lectures , cut hall , cut examinations , cut particular connections ; nay , more , I was informed of some , who cut their tutors ! I own , I was shocked at the latter account , and began to imagine nyself in the midst of so many monsters . Judge then , sir , how my horror increased , when I heard a li \> ely young man assert thatin consequence of an intimation from the tutor
rela-, tive to his irregularities ,- his own father came from the country to jobe him : " But , faith ! " added he , carelessly , " I no sooner learned lie was at the Black Bull [ an inn in High-street so called ] than I determined to cut the old codger completely . " But this was not the worst . ' One most ferocious spirit solemnly declared , that " h « Vol . IV . ...- P ., . " '' . - ¦
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.
shewed me . It was a long piece of whited-brown paper , like that ou which our commonest ballads are printed . On one side were the names of the young gentlemen , on the other were two Latin compositions in hexameter verse . This tripos was published the sixth of March 1794 . The motto for the first production was taken from Homer , and was this :
Ovrog y _ ' - ¦ ¦ 5 Afi £ o 7 _ fov , fia < 7 i \ v 7 ); t' cyaSo ; xp « T _ fo ; T * a '^ fOiTDj . ¦ That for the second was from Sophocles , as follows : ' Ev _}' , O CTO p ^ JfOJ 0 SOJ 2 xi ; 4- «; tKaiia Aci / xo ; s ^ 9 iros ¦ Sro . ti . )
' Ttp ' a xsvara .. OEDIP . TYRAN . V . 37 . The verses are very good , and the sentiments truly liberal . The general discourse , being of a very desultory nature , I can only give j'ou those detached passages which struck riiy notice as more peculiarly uncommon ., i shall continue to mark the parts alluded to in Italics .
Soon after the cloth ivas removed one gentleman exclaimed : "D—n those Retrosl My Jip brought one in this morning ; faith ! and told me I wasfocussed . 1 resolved in this dilemma to smite my tutor ; but , as I lately came over bim for a good round sum , I was forced to run the ri g upon bim . Luckily I crammed bim so well , that at last honest Jollux tipped me tbe cole . " Another gentleman entertained us with
saying , that he had just been convened in the combination ( qu . comminution ) room ; , and was very near rustication , merely for kicking up a rou after a beakering party-. " Soho , Jack ! " briskly rejoined another , " almost presented \ Vitli a travelling fellowship ? very nigh being sent to grass , hey ? " . - I soon discovered that they had nick-names for the inhabitants cOllectiyely of their several colleges . Thussome were Jesuitsothers
, , Christians ; some Johniail bogs , others Trinity bulldogs ; some Clareball greyhounds , others again , Sidney owls ; et sic deinceps . I remarked also , that they frequently used the words to cut , and to sport , in senses to me totally unintelligible . A man had been cut in chapel , cut at afterfioon lectures , cut in his tutor ' s rooms , cut at a concertcut at a ball & c . SoonhoweverI was told of menvice versdivho
, , , , , ^ cut a figure , cut chapel , cut gates , cut lectures , cut hall , cut examinations , cut particular connections ; nay , more , I was informed of some , who cut their tutors ! I own , I was shocked at the latter account , and began to imagine nyself in the midst of so many monsters . Judge then , sir , how my horror increased , when I heard a li \> ely young man assert thatin consequence of an intimation from the tutor
rela-, tive to his irregularities ,- his own father came from the country to jobe him : " But , faith ! " added he , carelessly , " I no sooner learned lie was at the Black Bull [ an inn in High-street so called ] than I determined to cut the old codger completely . " But this was not the worst . ' One most ferocious spirit solemnly declared , that " h « Vol . IV . ...- P ., . " '' . - ¦