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111 lucidity, will be noticed here. Those associated with Magdalen Hall, to make the confusion less confounded, will be treated under the head of Magdalen College.

Hertford itself, with its quarter of a century of present existence, has had as yet no time to create lasting Landmarks in Literature.

In Hart Hall, in 1600 and for a short time, was John Seldon, the Antiquary, who, however, did not graduate.

And on the strength of testimonials from Trinity College, Dublin, went Jonathan Swift to receive his degree from Oxford in 1792, when he was recorded as being "a member of Hart Hall." Little else is recorded of him in Oxford, except that he was already beginning to try his 'prentice hand at Literature; and it was in that year (1792) that John Dryden, on the authority of Dr. Johnson, said to him: "Cousin Swift, you will never be a poet!"