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he saw fit to take no names is of itself evidence that nothing very 

 desperate occurred, and that no one need have minded his name 

 appearing, for there is nothing immoral in noise and high spirits. 

 L)r. " Ben " Latham, who was a really good old man, saw no more 

 than youthful effervescence in such festivities, and there is nothing 

 more ; nor is there any desperate wickedness in driving hansoms 

 down Jesus Lane in dress clothes, with cabby as " fare." 



The mention of Dr. Latham brings up the dinner of the Four 

 Masters, given by Dr. Latham and recorded by H. S. Gladstone. 

 " We sat down," he says, " the Master of Trinity Hall, the Master 

 of Jesus (' Black Morgan '), the President of Queens' (Dr. Ryle, a 

 Divinity Professor, afterwards Bishop of Winchester and now Dean 

 of Westminster), the (late) Master of Selwyn (Bishop Selwyn the 

 younger), Newall the Astronomer, one other, and H. S. G. ! ^ The 

 latter felt nervous. ..." He talked the politics of the day with 

 Newall, and history with Professor Eyle ; both, but perhaps particu- 

 larly the latter, "must have been interested and elevated — who 



SAID AMUSED ? " 



Now, I think that Mr. Gladstone ought to have enjoyed liimself, 

 as all four "Heads" at least (I know nothing of the Astronomer) 

 were the best of company. Of " Ben " Latham I have already told a 

 tale. He was with his dog " Wob " a well-known figure in Cambridge 

 in my time, and much beloved by all Hall men, whom he used to 

 invite to his house to play billiards, and while play was going on 

 would come in aud talk to them. Of one he asked what Tripos he 

 was taking, and was told the " General Tripos," to wliich he answered, 

 " Oh ! the Genewal Twipos. Well, I tliink you'd better sit down for 

 a bit and keep quiet ! " The undergraduate in question I knew as a 

 droll if somewhat disreputable fellow, but with all his faults he was 

 devoted to the old man. The " General Tripos," by the way, was a 

 bogey to many beaglers. 



I used, as an ordination candidate, to attend Professor Eyle's 

 lectures on the History of the Jews, and he made them delightful ; 

 though of what use the knowledge would be to me in the execution 



^ " H. S. G." being a Master of Hounds, ought not tlii.s to liave been called the 

 dinner of the Jive Masters ? 



