CHAP. VI.] AT PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE. 149 



whereas, considering the immoral nature of said establish- 

 ment, it was unanimously resolved to refuse leave. And 

 whereas, notwithstanding said refusal, said W. C. did 

 publicly notify his intention of putting up said estab. : 

 Be it known, etc., that it is resolved and enacted, that 

 if any undergraduate or graduate in statu pupillari, or 

 tutor, or fellow, or master, etc., be caught at said estab- 

 lishment, he will be punished with expulsion, rustication, 

 Castigation, or such other punishment as the case may 

 require. 1 



So there is to be a quarrel between the Town and 

 University about this, and also about whether they are to 

 pay poor rate, as the University is supposed to be extra- 

 parochial. 



Prelim, exam, to-morrow at 9. Peter can't afford to 

 pluck at it. C. H. Eobertson has past his at Trin. He is 

 in Ling's lodgings. He wants to keep quiet and to read by 

 himself, and have only old acquaintances. 



To A FRIEND SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION. 



Hope to write you more again; but to conclude and get 

 to bed: You are always talking of your withering up, 

 awful change, etc. Now I have not a sermon on this sub- 

 ject by me, neither will I deliver an extempore one ; but 

 though I do not pretend to have examined you in all the 

 branches, yet I would take the liberty to say that with re- 

 spect to intellect, as the Laird of Dumbiedykes said, " It'll 

 be growing when ye're sleeping," that is to say, what you 

 take for corruption and decay is only stratification. 2 



The letters written to his father by Maxwell while 

 an undergraduate at Cambridge have unfortunately 

 disappeared. But something of their tenor may be 



1 Contrast with this the following entry in the Diary: " 1842, 

 Feb. 19. Saturday. Go with James to Cooke's Circus at 2 P.M. at 

 York Hotel, Arena being James's first time of seeing such entertain- 

 ments." 2 See above, p. 113, note. 



