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236 1790 has given some accounts of the student life at that college at that time, not differing greatly from the contemporary pictures of the day's doings in sister institutions, but interesting in themselves. He had chapel at eight, breakfast, of tea, rolls, and toast, at eight thirty; read Demosthenes for Kett's lectures until one P.M.; walked or sailed; was shaved and powdered by the college barber, and dined at three. At half past nine he and his friends supped on meat and beer, and sometimes wine; and he closes the evening's history by saying, that "those who could, helped the rest to bed"!