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| CHAPTER I |
| THE UNDERGRADUATE THEN AND NOW |
| Blissful ignorance—The real education—Empty schools—Manhood—Lonely freshers—The “pi” man—The newcomer’s metamorphosis—The Lownger’s day—Regrets at being down | 1-8 |
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| CHAPTER II |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER |
| First arrival—Footpads and “easy pads”—Farewell to parents—A forlorn animal—Terrae Filius’s advice—Much prayers—“Hell has no fury like a woman scorned”—The disadvantages of a conscience | 9-17 |
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| CHAPTER III |
| THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY FRESHER—(continued) |
| Ceremony of matriculation—Paying the swearing-broker—Colman and the Vice-Chancellor—Learning the Oxford manner—Homunculi Togati—Academia and a mother’s love—The jovial father—Underground dog-holes and shelving garrets—The harpy and the sheets—The first night | 18-28 |
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| CHAPTER IV |
| THE SMART |
| Valentine Frippery and his letter—Boiled chicken and pettitoes—Lyne’s coffee-house and the billet doux—Tick—Liquor capacity—A Smart advises The Student—Latin odes for tradesmen only | 29-38 |
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| CHAPTER V |
| THE TOAST |
| Terrae Filius sums her up—Merton Wall butterflies—Hearne comments—Flavia and the orange tree—Dick, the sloven—The President under her thumb—Amhurst’s table of cons.—King Charles and the other place | 39-45 |
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| CHAPTER VI |
| THE SERVITOR |
| The germ of Ruskin Hall—Description of himself—George Whitefield—College exercises—Running errands and copying lines—Samuel Wesley—Famous servitors | 46-54 |
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| CHAPTER VII |
| SPORTS AND ATHLETICS |
| Rowing—Dame Hooper’s—Southey at Balliol—Cox’s six-oared crew—The river-side barmaid—Sailing-boats—Statutes against games—Bell-ringing—Hearne and gymnasia—Horses and badger-baiting—Cock-fights and prize-fights—Paniotti’s Fencing Academy—Old-time “bug-shooters”—Skating in Christ Church meadows—Cricket and the Bullingdon Club—Walking tours | 55-68 |
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| CHAPTER VIII |
| CLUBS AND SOCIETIES |
| The foregathering fresher—Dibdin and the “Lunatics”—The Constitution Club—The Oxford Poetical Club—Its rules and minutes—High Borlace—The Freecynics and Banterers | 69-82 |
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| CHAPTER IX |
| WORK AND EXAMINATIONS |
| Tolerated ignorance—Lax discipline—Gibbon and Magdalen—The “Vindication”—Opposing and responding—“Schemes”—Doing austens—Perjury and bribes—Receiving presents—Magdalen collections | 83-94 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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