Roll-call in full swing in Hall: that is, the college porter is there, ticking off undergraduates’ names as they come in. Hall very cold and untidy: college cat scavenging remnants of last night’s dinner. Portrait of the Founder looking as if he never expected the college to come to this kind of thing. Men appear in various stages of dishabille. Must make an example of some one: ’Really Mr. Tinkler, I must ask you to put on something besides an ulster.’ Tinkler explains that he is fully dressed, opening his ulster and disclosing an elaborate toilet: unfortunate--have to apologise. During the incident several men without caps and gowns succeed in making their escape. Back in my rooms: finish dressing. Fire out, no hot water. This is what they call the luxurious existence of a College Fellow. Post arrives: chiefly bills and circulars: several notes from undergraduates. ’Dear Sir,--May I go to London for the day in order to keep an important engagement.’ Dentist, I suppose. ’Dear Mr. ----,--I am sorry that I was absent from your valuable lecture yesterday, as I was not aware you would do so.’ ’Dear Sir,--I shall be much obliged if I may have leave off my lecture this morning, as I wish to go out hunting.’ Candid, at any rate. ’Mr. ---- presents his compliments to Mr. ---- and regrets that he is compelled to be absent from his Latin Prose lecture, because I cannot come.’ Simple and convincing. Whip from the Secretary of the Non-Placet Society: urgent request to attend in Convocation and oppose nefarious attempt to insert ’and’ in the wording of Stat. Tit. Cap. LXX. 18. Never heard of the statute before. Breakfast. College cook apparently thinks that a hitherto unimpaired appetite can be satisfied by what seems to be a cold chaffinch on toast. ’Take it away, please, and get me an egg.’ Egg arrives: not so old as chaffinch, but nearly: didn’t say I wanted a chicken. Scout apologises: must have brought me an undergraduate’s egg by mistake. Never mind; plain living and high thinking. Two college servants come to report men absent last night from their rooms. Must have given them leave to go down: can’t remember it, though. Matter for investigation. Porter reports gentleman coming into college at 12.10 last night. All right: ’The Dean’s compliment’s to Mr. ----, and will he please to call upon him at once. ’Mr. ----’s compliments to the Dean, and he has given orders not to be awakened till ten, but will come when he is dressed.’ Obliging.