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149 John Connington went up to University College in June, 1843, but very soon after was given a "Demeship" at Magdalen, where he remained until 1846, when he returned to University to spend the rest of his university life, and to prepare his edition of "Virgil."

John Richard Green, a native of Oxford, as we have seen, went, when he was eight years of age, to Magdalen Grammar School, then held in a small room within the precincts of the College. When he was a little older he took part, from choice and with wrapt enthusiasm, in the May-morning procession of the Magdalen Choir-boys, to sing "The Hymn to the Trinity" on the College Tower; and once he received a prize at the hands of a Master of the School who was the last man in Oxford to wear the wig of other days, and who remembered and knew Dr. Johnson in life.

Green's desire was to enter Magdalen College, but it was otherwise decreed, and he went to Jesus College in 1854.

"The Oxford Directory" for 1899 says that the ceremony of chanting the Te Deum on Magdalen Towers on the First of May—in pursuance of an ancient custom—now brings together a crowd of listeners in the street below, who are willing to rise as early as five A.M.; and that at its close the bells