Is a living example of the fact, that it does not require great learning to make a great general; nor is great learning always necessary to complete the character of the head of a college. The late Rector of Exeter College, Dr. Cole, raised that society, by his prudent management, from the very _reduced_ rank in which he found it amongst the other foundations of Oxford, to a flourishing and high reputation for good scholarship. Yet he is said one day to have complimented a student at collections, by saying, after the gentleman had construed his portion of Sophocles, "Sir, you have construed your _Livy_ very well." He nevertheless redeemed his credit by one day _posing_ a student, during his divinity examination, with asking him, in vain, "_What Christmas day was?_" Another Don of the same college, once asking a student of the society some divinity question, which he was equally at a loss for an answer, he exclaimed--"Good God, sir, you the son of a clergyman, and not answer such a question as that?" Aristotle was of opinion that knowledge _could only be acquired_, but our tutor seems to have thought, like the opponents of Aristotle, that a _son of a parson_ ought to be _born to it_. ANOTHER OXONIAN WAS POSED, Whom I knew, yet was by no means deficient in scholastic learning, and withal a great wag. He was asked, at the divinity examination, how many sacraments there were. This happened at the time that the _Catholic question_ was in the high road to the House of Lords, under the auspices of the Duke of Wellington, and he had been _cramming_ his _upper story_ with abundance of _Catholic Faith_ from the writings of _Faber_, _Gandolphy_, and the _Bishops of Durham and Exeter_. "How many sacraments are there, sir?" repeated the Examiner (of course referring to the Church of England.) The student _paused on_, and the question was repeated a second time; "Why--a--suppose--we--a--say half a dozen," was the reply. It is needless to add he was _plucked_. The following LAPSUS GRAMMATICÆ Is attributed to a certain D.D. of Exeter, who, having undertaken to lionize one of the foreign princes of the many that accompanied the late king and the sovereigns of Russia and Prussia to Oxford, in 1814, a difficulty arose between them as to their medium of communication; the prince being ignorant of the English language, and the doctor no less so with respect to modern foreign languages. In this dilemma the latter proposed an interchange of ideas by means of the fingers, in the following unique address:--"Intelligisne colloquium _cum digitalibus tuis?_" It would be somewhat awkward for certain alumni if his Grace of Wellington should issue an imperative decree, as Chancellor, THAT THE LATIN TONGUE BE USED,