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of night are falling fast, they issue forth from their colleges to 

 take their walks abroad, exacting 6/8 from all undergraduates 

 found walking without their academical dress, and exercise 

 authority in various other ways. Occasionally a youth will make 

 a run for it, and, in anticipation of this, the proctor has two men 

 with him, popularly known as bull dogs : the chase begins, and 

 there are few sights more interesting than a keen race between 

 the active undergraduate and the proctor "s myrmidons : youth and 

 strength, and health are pitted against numbers, and superior 

 acquaintance with the locality. 



Such are the University officers : now to discuss the arrange- 

 ments of a college, for it is with the college that the man's life 

 is most intimately connected. His acquaintance with the Uni- 

 versity is limited to his entrance, an examination or two, and his 

 degree. There are 17 colleges in Cambridge scattered over the 

 town : each has its two or three courts, dining hall, chapel, and 

 library. Few have enough room to accommodate all their mem- 

 bers, and some men have accordingly to live in lodgings near the 

 college by a system of rotation, every man has the opportunity 

 sometime during his career of getting rooms in college. The 

 Government is as follows ; at the top is the Head : in most cases 

 at Cambridge merely ornamental, but it depends on the man 

 himself whether the Headship shall be a sinecure or not. It is 

 a post by no means to be despised : the Headship of Trinity is a 

 magnificent position, and in all cases a good house, a satisfactory 

 income, pleasant society, access to all University advantages, 

 probably some shooting and fishing on college property in the 

 vicinity : such advantages are not to be lightly esteemed. After 

 the Head come the Fellows, varying in number at the different 

 Colleges from 60 to 10 : the election to a vacancy depends upon 

 the place a man takes in the University or College examinations : 

 they are held on various conditions at the different colleges. The 

 Fellows have the management of the colleges : they form a kind 

 of Committee for arrrauging the affairs and managing the landed 

 property, and the annual proceeds are divided amongst them. 

 The offices to be divided among the resident Dons are those of 

 Treasurer, to keep the accounts ; of Bursar, to pay the ordinary 

 College expenditure ; of Tutor, to act as the means of communi- 

 cation with parents, and to be an adviser and superintendent of 

 the students ; of Dean, to serve as chaplain at the daily services ; 

 and of Lecturers, to teach the men. The scholars of a college 

 are generally undergraduates, but are distinguished from the 

 ordinary students by receiving some emolument from the funds. 

 Two classes exist in some colleges but are gradually being ex- 

 tinguished, the Fellow Commoners, and' the Sizars. 



The paper went on to describe the routine of a day at college, 

 the chapel in the morning, the lecturers, referring here at some 



