When a late master of Richmond School, Yorkshire, came, a _raw_ lad in his teens, to matriculate at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was invited to dinner by his tutor, and happened to be seated opposite some boiled fowls, which, having just emptied a plate of his _quantum_ of fish, he was requested to _carve_. He accordingly took one on his plate, but not being a _carver_, he leisurely ate the whole of it, _minus_ the bones, not at all disconcerted by the smiles of the other guests: and when the cheese appeared, and his host cut a plateful for him to pass round the table, he coolly set to and eat the whole himself. He, notwithstanding, proved a good scholar, and distinguished himself both in classics and mathematics, is now a canon residentiary of St. Paul's, and a very worthy divine, who has earned his reputation, preferments, and dignities by his merits only. * * * * * A COLLEGE QUIZ. The following effusion of humour was the production of a very pleasant fellow, an Oxford scholar, now no more, who, says Angelo, in his Reminiscences, "was a great favourite among his brother collegians," and a humourist:--"Lost £10 this morning, May 15, 1808, in Peckwater Quadrangle, near No. 6. Any nobleman, gentleman, common student, or commoner, who will, as soon as possible, bring the same back to the afflicted loser, shall, with pleasure, receive _ten guineas_ reward; a suitor shall receive _five_ guineas; and a scout or porter, _one_ guinea. The notes were all Bank of England notes, I only received this morning from my father. My name is ----, and I lodge at ----, facing Tom Gate, where I am anxiously waiting for some kind friend to bring them to me.--_Vivant Rex et Regina_." * * * * * SUCKING THE MILK OF BOTH UNIVERSITIES Is an epithet applied to those members who, after graduating at one proceeds to a like degree at the other. A party one day disputing as to whether Oxford or Cambridge was the more distinguished seat of learning,--"It can't affect me," exclaimed one of them, "for I was educated at both." Upon which a wag observed, "He reminded him of a calf that was suckled by two cows." "How so?" said the other. "Why, it turned out the greatest _calf_ I ever knew," was the retort. * * * * * Amongst the musical professors of Cambridge, and not the least, who was organist of King's College also, in the beginning of the eighteenth century, was Dr. Thomas Tudway. He was a notorious wag, and when several of the members of the University of Cambridge expressed their discontent at the paucity of the patronage, and the rigour of the government of the "proud Duke of Somerset," whose statue graces their senate house, he facetiously observed-- "_The Chancellor rides us all without a bit in our mouths._" LIKE RABELAIS,