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52 before it became habitual in any of the other Institutions of Learning in Oxford, and the undergraduate complained that he was stripped of all his mediaeval liberty and reduced to the school-boy level. If his lessons were unprepared, if he whispered in chapel, or if he was guilty of "odious comparisons"—whatever that last may mean—he was liable to be soundly birched, not by the upper-class men, who would naturally resent comparisons of any kind as being particularly odious, but by the tutors and masters in charge.

W. M. Wade, in his "Walks in Oxford," printed in 1817, gravely states that until the present handsome and ample fireplace in the College Hall of Brazenose was built, about 1760, the room was warmed by a fire made on the hearth, in the centre of the floor; and he adds that this was also the case in other colleges in Oxford, although the practice, in general, was not retained so long as in Brazenose.

In this Hall hangs now the famous Brazenose knocker, which was carried to Stamford many years ago; and not returned until 1890.

The connection of John Foxe, the Martyrologist, with Brazenose is very uncertain. According to an untrustworthy biography said to have been written by his son he was a member of the College; but his name does not appear in the College