After this description of the _vie intime_ of an undergraduate at Wadham, history is reserved on the subject of the junior members of the University; which is the more disappointing, as the historic Muse is not only garrulous, but exceedingly scandalous in recounting the virtues and the aberrations of eighteenth-century dons. Here and there we find an occasional notice of the ways of undergraduates--here a private memoir, there an academic _brochure_. We learn, incidentally, how Mr. John Potenger, of New College, made ’theams in prose and verse,’ and eventually ’came to a tollerable proficiency in colloquial Latin;’ how Mr. Meadowcourt, of Merton, got into serious trouble--was prevented, in fact, from taking his degree--for drinking the health of His Majesty King George the First; and how Mr. Carty, of University College, suffered a similar fate ’for prophaning, with mad intemperance, that day, on which he ought, with sober chearfulness, to have commemorated the restoration of King Charles the Second’ (this was in 1716); how Mr. Shenstone found, at Pembroke College, both sober men ’who amused themselves in the evening with reading Greek and drinking water,’ and also ’a set of jolly sprightly young fellows .... who drank ale, smoked tobacco,’ and even ’punned;’ and how Lord Shelburne had a ’narrow-minded tutor.’ From which we may gather, that University life was not so very different from what it is now: our forefathers were more exercised about politics, for which we have now substituted a perhaps extreme devotion to athletics. But for the most part, the undergraduate is not prominent in history--seeming, in fact, to be regarded as the least important element in the University. On the other hand, his successor of the present century--the era of the Examination Schools--occupies so prominent a place in the eyes of the public that it is difficult to speak of him, lest haply one should be accused of frivolity or want of reverence for the _raison d’être_ of all academic institutions. [Illustration: _CRICKET IN THE PARKS. By Launcelot Speed._]