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172 tilers came to dine; and to supper two paviours of Nettleybed."

Great were the contrasts between the manners and customs of Balliol during the first decade of the Nineteenth Century, as Sir William Hamilton described them, and the customs and habits of the undergraduates of the same institution a hundred years later. Greater still were the differences between college life in 1807, in Hamilton's time, and college life at the end of the Fourteenth Century, when William of Wykeham set down the rules for the government of New. He barred amusements of all kinds, not only "the shooting with arrows, stones, or other missiles," but even games of ball. And he prohibited, especially, "all dancing, wrestling or other incautious or inordinate games"—in Chapel! The Scholars rose at five, or six, in the morning, according to the season of the year, and they dined at ten A.M. Supper was at five in the afternoon; and, naturally, they went early to bed. No allusion is made to breakfast of any kind or at any hour; and there seems to be no trace of breakfast at any of the colleges until toward the end of the next two hundred years, when men began to go to the butteries for a slice of bread and a pint of beer, which generally were carried to their own rooms, and there consumed in the society of other men, as a foundation of strength for the