Tom Warton relates, in his somewhat rambling Life of Dr. Ralph Bathurst, President of Trinity College, Oxford, that Dr. Radcliffe was a student of Lincoln College when Dr. B. presided over Trinity; but notwithstanding their difference of age and distance of situation, the President used to visit the young student at Lincoln College "merely for the smartness of his conversation." During one of these morning or evening calls, Dr. B. observing the embryo physician had but few books in his chambers, asked him "Where was his study?" upon which young Radcliffe replied, pointing to a few books, a skeleton, and a herbal, "This, Sir, is Radcliffe's library." Tom adds the following TRAITS OF DR. BATHURST'S WIT AND HABITS. When the Doctor was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, a captain of a company, who had fought bravely in the cause of his royal master, King Charles the First, being recommended to him for the degree of D.C.L., the doctor told the son of Mars he could not confer the degree, "but he would apply to his majesty to give him a regiment of horse!" HE FREQUENTLY CARRIED A WHIP IN HIS HAND, An instrument of correction not entirely laid aside in our universities in his time; but (says Tom) he _only_ "delighted to _surprise_ scholars, when walking in the grove at unseasonable hours. This he practised," adds Warton, "on account of the pleasure he took in giving _so odd_ an alarm, rather than from any principle of reproving, or intention of applying so illiberal a punishment." One thing is certain, that in the statutes of Trinity College, Oxford (as late as 1556,) scholars of the foundation are ordered to be WHIPPED EVEN TO THE TWENTIETH YEAR. "Dr. Potter," says Aubery, while a tutor of the above college, "_whipped his pupil with his sword by his side_, when he came to take his leave of him to go to the Inns of Court." This was done to make him a _smart_ fellow. "In Sir John Fane's collection of letters of the Paston family, written _temp_. Henry VI.," says the author of the _Gradus ad Catabrigiam_, "we find one of the GENTLE SEX prescribing for her son, who was at Cambridge," no doubt with a maternal anxiety that he should BE A SMART FELLOW, as follows:--"Prey Grenefield to send me faithfully worde by wrytyn, who (how) Clemit Paston hathe do his dever i' lernying, and if he hath nought do well, nor will nought amend, prey hym that he wyll truely BELASH hym _tyl_ he wyll amend, and so dyd the last mastyr, and the best eu' he had at Cambridge." And that Master Grenefield might not want due encouragement, she concludes with promising him "X m'rs," for his _pains_. We do not, however, learn how many _marks_ young Master Clemit received, who certainly took _more pains_.--PATIENDO _non faciendo_--FERENDO _non feriendo_. * * * * * MILTON WAS BELASHED