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253 too young in his Wadham days to have developed a great deal of evil, although no doubt he tried his best to be wicked even then.

Wood says that at the time of the Earl of Rochester's receipt of his degree of Master of Arts, he, and none else, was admitted very affectionately into the fraternity by a kiss on the left cheek from the Chancellor of the University.

Rochester, adds Wood, was "a person of most rare parts, and his natural talent was excellent. . . . But the eager tendency and violent impulses of his natural temperament inclined him to the excesses of pleasure and mirth, which, with the pleasantness of his inimitable humor, did so engage the affection of the dissolute towards him, as to make him delightfully ventrous and frolicsome to the utmost degree of riotous extravagance."

A little later than the Rochesters at Wadham was one Doctor Robert Pitt, who entered in 1669, obtained a Scholarship in 1670, and a Fellowship in 1674, and was also a member of the Royal Society. He wrote one book, important in its time and in its matter, but absolutely forgotten now. It was called "The Craft and Fraud of Physic Exposed," and it was a serious and learned protest against the taking of too much physic, especially in the form of "powdered vipers." He