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75 ," behind the footlights in college halls, is likely to be "dash't" upon the ordinary professional boards!

John Wesley left the Charter House School to enter Christ Church in 1720, where, we are told, he began to display an extraordinary conscientiousness and ascetic tendency; devoting himself particularly, and devotedly, to the study of the works of Thomas a Kempis and Jeremy Taylor. He became, in 1726, a Fellow of Lincoln, in which College, in later days, he is better remembered, and is still honored.

In his "Random Records" George Colman, the Younger, writes: "On my entrance at Oxford, as a member of Christ Church, I was too foppish a follower of the prevailing fashions [1779] to be a reverential observer of academical dress. In truth I was an egregious little puppy; and I was presented to the Vice-Chancellor to be matriculated in a grass-green coat, with the furiously bepowdered pate of an ultra-coxcomb." Two years later he left Oxford, without his degree, to complete his education at King's College, Aberdeen.

Henry G. Liddell and Robert C. Scott, so intimately associated in undergraduate minds as "Liddell and Scott," were at Christ Church together as undergraduates, from 1830 to 1833; and ten years later their familiar Dictionary was given