... to transcribe ... lines of Virgil's Aeneid, beginning at line ... book ..., and to deliver it to the Junior Dean after morning Chapel on Tuesday. ... to transcribe ... lines of Homer's Iliad, beginning at line ... book ..., and to deliver it to the Senior Dean after Morning Chapel on Thursday. ... to repeat ... lines of ... by order of the Junior (or Senior) Dean. These were filled up by the deans, cut off, and distributed by the chapel-clerk to the men concerned. Customarily in Trinity the senior dean gave impositions from the _Iliad_ to be delivered on a Thursday, an the junior dean from the _Aeneid_ to be delivered on a Tuesday. Forms for putting men out of commons, and admonishing them were printed in the same way on sheets, to be used as occasions arose. Impositions were set at Trinity as late as 1830, but I believe the custom had died out before 1840, though I am told it was still used in certain Cambridge colleges as late as 1855. At Oxford the practice continued rather later and indeed at a few colleges seems to have been in force till near the close of the nineteenth century, for Rashdall, writing in 1895, speaks of the practice as having been in force there until recently. A century ago there seems to have been a sort of recognized scale of penalties for cutting lectures or chapel. First, a reprimand was given at an interview or sent in writing by a servant; second, an imposition was set; third the offender was deprived of commons and sizings. If these steps were ineffective, the matter might be regarded as a serious offence against college discipline, and lead to "hauling" by the tutor, a gating, an interview with the master, a formal admonition, and in extreme cases to rustication. The theory of these petty punishments was set out by Whewell in his _Principles of English University Education_, 1837. A punishment, according to him, was to be regarded as the visible expression of college dissatisfaction with certain conduct: as an infliction it might be slight, but it emphasized the discontent expressed, and acted as a definite warning. He suggested a most severe scale; namely, for the first offence, forfeiture of one month's commons; for the second, of three months' commons; and for the third, expulsion; but there is no reason to think that this was ever the practice. _Confessions._ A public confession was another form of punishment once used: I believe that this ceased to be employed by the middle of the eighteenth century. _Statutory Admonitions. Rustication. Expulsion._ For the graver offences, a statutory admonition, rustication (temporary removal from the college), or expulsion were reserved.