Tolerated ignorance--Lax discipline--Gibbon and Magdalen-- The “Vindication”--Opposing and responding--“Schemes”-- Doing austens--Perjury and bribes--Receiving presents-- Magdalen collections 83-94 CHAPTER X ’VARSITY LITERATURE Present-day ineptitude--Jackson’s _Oxford Journal_-- Domestic intelligence--Election poems--Curious advertisements--Superabundance of St John’s editors-- Terrae Filius 95-108 CHAPTER XI ’VARSITY LITERATURE--(_continued_) _The Student_--Cambridge included--Its design--The female student--Poem by Sir Walter Raleigh--Bishop Atterbury’s letter--The manly woman 109-121 CHAPTER XII ’VARSITY LITERATURE--(_continued_) The _Oxford Magazine_--Introduction of illustrations--Odd advertisements--Attention paid to the Drama--Prologue to the _Cozeners_, written by Garrick--Visions, fables, and moral tales--_The Loiterer_--Diary of an Oxford man, 1789 122-135 CHAPTER XIII ’VARSITY LITERATURE--(_continued_) _The Oxford Packet_--_Academia: or the Humours of Oxford_-- _The Oxford Act_--_The Oxford Sausage_--Present and latter day literature summed up 136-141 CHAPTER XIV THE OXFORD TRADESMAN _The Student’s_ opinion of one--A tradesman’s poem and its result--Dodging the dun--Debt and its penalties-- Tradesmen’s taste in literature--Advertising and _The Loiterer_--Tick--Dr Newton, innkeeper--Amhurst’s confession--Fathers and trainers of toasts 142-152 CHAPTER XV THE DON Tutors--Their slackness--The real and the ideal tutor--Dr Newton on tutors’ fees--Dr Johnson’s recommendation of Bateman--Public lecturers--Terrae Filius and a Wadham man’s letter 153-162 CHAPTER XVI THE DON--(_continued_) The examiners--Perjury and bribery--Method of examining-- College Fellows--Election to Fellowships--Gibbon and the Magdalen Dons--Heads of colleges--Their domestic and public character--Golgotha and Ben Numps--St John’s head pays homage to Christ Church--Drs Marlowe and Randolph 163-174 CHAPTER XVII THE DON--(continued) Proctors--The Black Book--Personal spite and the taking of a degree--The case of Meadowcourt of Merton--Extract from Black Book--The taverner and the Proctor--Isaac Walton and the senior Proctor--Amhurst’s character sketch of a certain Proctor 175-183 CHAPTER XVIII CELEBRITIES AS OXFORD MEN