“In the fourth Term, in the first four epistles of St Paul, producing collections as before. “During his _fourth_ and last year he must make himself a proficient-- “In the first Term, in the first six books of the ‘Annals of Tacitus,’ and in the _Electra_ of Sophocles. “In the second Term, in Cicero’s ‘Orations’ against Catilina, and in those of Ligarius and Archias; and also in those Orations of Demosthenes which are contained in Mounteney’s edition. “In the third Term, in the ‘Dialogues’ of Plato published by Dr Forster, and in the _Georgics_ of Virgil. “In the fourth Term, in the remaining ten Epistles of St Paul and the Epistles general, producing collections as before.” The above is undoubtedly a little programme guaranteed to keep the average Undergraduate fairly busy in the use of midnight oil. But--how odd it is that there is ever a “but”--the excited vindicator rather spoilt matters and lessened the terrors of the programme by stating in his preliminary paragraph that only those Dons were present “who may please to attend!” Having digested already some few facts concerning the habits and hobbies of the eighteenth-century Don, as well as the liberty accorded to gentlemen commoners, there is no need to waste sympathy on “every individual Undergraduate” of Magdalen. He merely lowered the right eyelid, tapped the left nostril with the left index digit and “obtained leave to return to his friends in any Vacation,” with the greatest ease and speed and the most cordial of farewells to the President, Vice-President, Deans, and any of the Fellows who cared to attend. 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.