218 CHANCELLOR'S MEDAL. 



course of the Spring and Summer, un- 

 restricted by the conditions that confined 

 the poem to 200 lines, completed it in 

 a little more than 500. 



Meeting my friend in the May Term, 

 he told me, in answer to my inquiry, 

 that he had written his poem and sent 

 it in, and that his Tutor had assured him 

 that he had a very good chance of success. 



" I am very happy to hear it," said I. 



June came with the long vacation, 

 when all the men went away, and my 

 friend, I found, had left College, and 

 taken rooms in the town. 



"Why is our friend not gone home?" 

 enquired I of my wife. 



" He is waiting to see to whom the 

 Chancellor's medal is awarded/' 



"Well," I said, "he has only to go to 

 the University Marshal's he will tell him." 



He did so, and the answer was, " No 

 production good enough ; therefore, no 

 medal to be given." 



