Formerly the Dean of the college kept the Bachelor-fellows at disputations in the hall, sometimes till late at night, and then to give, them a black-night (as they called it;) the reason of which was this:--"Among many other famous scholars of this college, there were two great logicians, the one _Johannes Duns Scotus_, called _Doctor Subtilis,_ Fellow of the college, and father of the sect of the Realists, and his scholar _Gulielmus Occam,_ called _Doctor Invincibilis,_ of the same house, and father of the sect of the Nomenalists; betwixt whom there falling out a hot dispute one disputation night, _Scotus_ being the Dean of the college, and _Occam_ (a Bachelor-fellow therein,) though the latter got the better on't, yet being but an inferior, at parting submitted himself, with the rest of the Bachelors, to the Dean in this form, _Domine, quid faciernus?_ (_i. e._ Sir, what is your pleasure?) as it were begging punishment for their boldness in arguing; to whom _Scotus_ returned this answer, _Ite et facite quid vultis_ (_i. e._ Begone, and do as you please.) Hereupon away they went and broke open the buttery and kitchen doors, and plundered all the provisions they could lay hands on; called all their companions out of their beds, and made a merry bout on't all night. This gave occasion for observing the same diversion several times afterwards, whenever the Dean kept the Bachelor-fellows at disputation till twelve o'clock at night. The last black-night was about 1686." * * * * * THE FORCE OF IMAGINATION.