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 EXETER

was originally founded, in 1315, by one Bishop Stapledon, of the See of Exeter, when it was known as Stapledon Hall, the name "Exeter" not having been given to it until nearly a century later.

The many Men of Mind who have claimed Exeter as their Nourishing Mother, have devoted their talents to the other arts, and to the sciences, rather than to what has been called " mere literature, as such," and their Landmarks, naturally, need not be preserved in this particular connection. Seldon, the Antiquary; John Ford, the Dramatist; Sir William Lyell, the Geologist; William Morris and Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the Painters, have left their footprints—more or less distinct—in its halls and quadrangles; but of its sons, James Anthony Froude is almost the only writer of our own day, or of any other day, who can consistently be noticed here; Ford's association with the College being doubted by the later authorities. Something about Hazing at Oxford will be said later; but it is cheering to be able to record the fact that as early as 1637, one Rector Prideaux, of Exeter, succeeded in abolishing, in his own college, 101