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233 an obnoxious cook out of his own dining-room window at Florence, Italy, thereby, to his great regret, spoiling a tulip-bed in the garden below!

Apropos of the sudden and unceremonious departure of Landor from Trinity, and of similar unpremeditated exits, it may not be amiss here to give a list, taken quite at random, of the men, since well-known in the World of Letters, who have, voluntarily, or involuntarily, left the University without taking their degrees. Among them were Seldon, Antiquary; Evelyn, Diarist; Davenant, Poet Laureate; Withers, Poet; Gibbon, Historian; Richard Steele, Essayist and Dramatist; Raleigh, Poet and Historian; Theodore Hook, Novelist and Humorist; Calverley, Poet; Beaumont, Poet and Dramatist; Shenstone, Poet; Wycherley, Dramatist; Mitford, Historian; Shirley, Dramatist; Killigrew, Dramatist; Denham, Poet; Aubrey, Antiquary and Biographer; Jeffrey, Essayist and Critic; Herbert of Cherbury, Historian and Philosopher; Shelley, Poet; Kenelm Digby, Natural Philosopher; Otway, Poet; George Colman, the Younger, Dramatist; Thomas Day, Novelist and Philosopher; Philip Sidney, Poet; De Quincey, Essayist, and Samuel Johnson, Poet, Essayist, Biographer and Lexicographer.

John Henry Newman was admitted to Trinity