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116 a half, with a capacity of half a pint. The bowl itself is five feet two inches in girth; and tradition says that it is to become the permanent property of any person who is possessed of strength enough, of arm and of head, to lift it to his lips, and to drain its full contents at a draught. Unlike the famous yachting trophy, of which we hear so much in later years, the cup has been "lifted" more than once, in the phraseology of Britain; but it has never been "carried away," as we phrase such things in America.

Dr. Johnson was a guest of the Vice-Principal of Jesus in 1782, in rooms which were probably—not positively—"in the southwestern corner of the Outer Quadrangle, on the first floor," where, and when, he lifted his mighty voice in unbroken monologue; and drank gallons of tea, out of moderate-sized vessels.

Green, born in Oxford, and spending many of his happiest years there, knew and loved both town and University. He went to Magdalen Grammar School at the age of eight, and he won and Open Fellowship at Jesus at sixteen, before he was old enough to go into residence. His biographers tell us he entered college a friendless, homeless boy, and that he continued, as an undergraduate, to lead a solitary life. His Welsh co-students, with their close home-associations, looked