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their way at full gallop to Stratton Audley, or Bletcliing- 

 ton, or to other well-known meets of Squire Drake's 

 hounds. Even the strict discipline of Baliol College 

 when Dr. Jenkins was Master did not restrain the 

 present Duke of Westminster, the late George Law- 

 rence, author of " Guy Livingstone," and ISir Henry 

 Des Voeux, from hunting with Mr. Drake or with the 

 Heythrop hounds three or four times in every week ; 

 while University College habitually sent forth a host of 

 her sons, with Mr. George Glyn, now Lord Wolverton, 

 at their head, to try their luck with the Berkshire pack. 

 When the late Sir Robert Clifton came up to reside at 

 Christ Church in 1844, he brought fourteen hunters with 

 him, and in those days the life of an undergraduate, 

 especially if he was a " tuft," or a gentleman commoner, 

 differed little from that of a regular habitue of 

 Melton Mowbray or Market Harborough. The " dons " 

 did not interfere much with the pleasures and pursuits 

 of fast and opulent men, so long as they got home 

 before midnight and slept in college; and it required no 

 sUght amount of ingenuity for an undergraduate to get 

 rusticated in those easy-going times. It was reserved 

 for half-a-dozen men belonging to the fast set at Palliol 

 in 1846 to draw the displeasure of the Master upon 

 their heads, by riding a steeplechase among themselves, 

 which led to their being sent down for the rest of the 

 term. On the Derby Day undergraduates were com- 

 pelled to dine in hall at five o'clock, so that it should be 

 impossible for them to attend the great race at Epsom ; 

 but the penalties attached to disobedience did not prevent 

 Sir Tatton Sykes from going to Epsom in Pyrrhus I.'s 

 year; the result being that his career as an undergraduate 

 came prematurely to an end. 



The picture of "Melton in 1830," drawn by Lord 

 Gardner's hand, would not fit the Melton of "to-day. 



