of the Mertonians, as they call it (says Mr. Pointer,) from a barbarous Latin word derived from _Tertius_, because there are always three standing at a time. The custom, he says, is a loyal one, and arises from their drinking the King and Queen's health standing (at dinner) on some extraordinary days (called Gaudies, from the Latin word _Gaudeo_, to rejoice,) to show their loyalty. There are always three standing at a time the first not sitting down again till the second has drank to a third man. The same loyal custom, under different forms, prevails in all colleges in both Universities. At the Inns of Court, also, in London, the King's health is drunk every term, on what is called _Grand Day_, all members present, big-wig and student, having filled "a bumper of sparkling wine," rise simultaneously, and drink "The King," _supernaculum_, of course. * * * * * A MORE CAPACIOUS BOWL Than the foregoing is in the possession of the Society of Jesus College, Oxford, says Chalmers, the gift of the hospitable Sir Watkins Williams Wynne, grandfather to the present baronet. It will contain ten gallons, and weighs 278 ounces: how or when it is used, this deponent sayeth not. Queen's College, Oxon, says Mr. Pointer, has its-- HORN OF DIVERSION, So called because it never fails to afford _funnery_. It is kept in the buttery, is occasionally presented to persons to drink out of and is so contrived, that by lifting it up to the mouth too hastily, the air gets in and suddenly forces too great a quantity of the liquid, as if thrown into the drinker's face, to his great surprise and the delight of the standers by. _Multa cadunt inter calicem supremaque labra._ ANOTHER BIBULOUS RELIQUE Was the famous chalice, found in one of the hands of the founder of Merton College, Oxford, the celebrated Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and Chancellor of England, upon the opening of his grave in 1659, says Wood, on the authority of Mr. Leonard Yate, Fellow of Merton. It held more than a quarter of a pint; and the Warden and Fellows caused it to be sent to the College, to be put into their _cista jocalium_; but the Fellows, in their zeal, sometimes drinking out of it, "this, then, so valued relic was broken and destroyed." * * * * * A LAUDABLE AND CHRISTIAN CUSTOM, In Merton College, says Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_, &c. "is their meeting together in the Hall on Christmas Eve, and other solemn times, to sing a Psalm, and drink a _Grace Cup_ to one another, (called _Poculum Charitatis_) wishing one another health and happiness. These _Grace Cups_," he adds, "they drink to one another every day after dinner and supper, wishing one another peace and good neighbourhood." This conclusion reminds us of the following anecdote:--