Eagle Contents 1910sAnother Septuagenarian's Recollections
Urbs in Rure
A Spc.:c.:ch of \Velcome to St John's in March 1612-3
Danae
The Blank Window in the Chapel: Two Legends of St John
The Examined Life
A Curious Interview
Two Marsh Vignettes
Obituary: William Wills M.A.
Edmond Kelly M.A.
The Johnian Dinner, 1909
To Sleep
The Octogenarian Recollections of a member of St John's Collrge College Reform in the Fifties College Reform under the Cambridge University Act of 1856. To Cleonymus
The Vicar and Church of Little Maplested Sunset .
"Grave Disorder"
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Voluntaries
In Memoriam : Edward VII.
St Venus' Eve
The Book Invisible
The New Hymn Book and Certain of Our Own Poets
Epigram
Catullus
Commemoration Sermon
Memorial Service
Our Chronicle
The Library
hundredth anniversary of Lady Margaret's
death, the Dean of Westminster preached in
the Abbey at the afternoon service on our
saintly Foundress, whose tomb, by Torrigiano, is one
of the jewels of the church.
Near midnight a party viewed the tomb and other
monuments by lamp-light, and the Dean distributed
photographs of Torrigiano's masterpiece.
guests representing all the foundations of Lady Margaret,
and all the places where she has left a name. The hosts
were the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. Among
those present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Lord High Steward (Lord Salisbury), Dr Sanday (of
Oxford), .the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge (Dr A. J.
Mason), the Masters of Trinity, Christ's, and St John's,
the Headmaster of Westminster (Dr Gow), Dr Bonney
(a Governor of Westminster, formerly a master there),
and the Headmaster of Wimborne (where Lady
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Bude
Selbstgefiihl
A Summer Idyll
The New Year
Ballade
John E. B. 1\fayor
Obituary: J. E. B. Mayor
List of Prof J. E. B. Mayor's Contributions to Notes and Queries First List of Prof J. E. B. Mayor's Vegetarian Publications Our Chronicle
The Library .
The Quatercentenary Dinners
The Commemoration Sermon
Gott unci Welt-Procemion
Music and the Lay Mind
Meleager
The Rev. J. Foxley
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Completed List of Professor J. E. B. Mayor's Vegetarian Publications 316
Our Chronicle
The Library
(Continued from Vol. xxxr., p. 316.)
n HE first group of documents which follow relate to Mr Alan Percy, second Master of the College. He is first met with as Pre­ bendary of Dunnington in York Cathedral,
to which he was admitted 1 May 1513. He was admitted Master of St John's 29 July 1516, at the formal opening of the College, though he seems to have been performing the duties for about a month before that date. He vacated his Prebend at York in I .517 and Robert Shorton, his predecessor as Master of St John's, succeeded him there, I November 1517.
Mr Percy had been appointed Rector of St Anne with St Agnes in the City of London by the Abbot and Convent of Westminster, and was instituted 6 May I 515. He resigned both his Rectory and his Master­ ship in 1518; up to the present no reason for these resignations has come to light. The pension assigned to him by the College (£ 10 a year) was a liberal one at the time, for the stipend of the Master was only£ 12. Mr Percy, however, did not claim the pension long as
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The Quatercentenary Sermon
The Memorial Volume
The Eaglet
"Barbarous Hexameters"
Lord Pengerswick's Christmasing
Socrates Visits St John's
Contributions to Classical Studies by Prof. J. E. B. Mayor
Obituary:
Don Quixote
Rcculver Din The Star of Love . l'p-to-clate Fairy Tales.-! I.
1rdvTa ,Jei Ldtcrs from l'hilip Hashleigh and John Goulcl to Jakob Samuel
\\'yttenbach, written in the years 1792-94
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63 63 64 65 65 67 68 71 95
101 136 137 153 157 162 163 169 171 177
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Reviews
Obituary:
John Gould and his Friends
On the Embankment .
The Commemoration Sermon
The Wizard's Apprenlica
Caleb the Carpenter
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356 380
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of St John's College, Cambridge, completed the Commemoration of the four-hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the College
in 15 1 1. The res id en t Undergraduates and Bachelors and Masters of Arts had already been entertained at
Commemoration dinners held during term on May 6
and 8, in connection with the Feast of St John Ante
P01·tam Latinam, when the older and younger members of the College sat side by side at the tables in the Hall and the toast of the College was proposed in felicitous terms by the Master. Replies, worthy of the occasion,
was made on the former evening by Mr H. P. W.
Burton and on the latter by Mr C. F. Smith. The company then adjourned to the Combination Room for coffee, and the younger members of it spent part of the time in securing autographs for their menu cards. Probably some of the older had rarely before signed their names so often in so short a time. The members of the College invited on June 29 were for the most
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Das Bllimlein vVunderschon: Soveigne vous de moy
The College of the Fourth Gospeller.
Principles of Success in the Service of India
The Nymph's Lament
Songs of Exmoor.
\\'icken Fen
Reviews
Obituary
Samuel Buller and his Note-Books
The Tale of Adrian Spinks
The Canadian University .
1\Ianners for Men
Peter Hamnett Mason . \Villiam Wyc!iffe Barlow, M.A. Rev. Charles Elsee
Our Chronicle The Library
A Skit on Examinations
Commemoration Sermon
Tales wilh a Moral
Herbcrt Donalcl Bushel!
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• 387
THE EAGLE.
(Conti11ued from vol. -.>:iii. p. 300.)
N this number we reprint a very rare tract
connected with College matters during the
Commonwealth period. The tract, which
does not appear to be in' the Library of the
British Museum, has been transcribed from the copy
in the University Library in the Cambridge collection
of the late Mr John Willis Clark (the Press mark is :
Cam. d. 649). The author, Robert Waideson (Wadeson or aydson),
matriculated .from St John's, 3 July 1628, before the
Register of Admissions begins. He was M.A. 1639,
and M. D . 16•f.7· He was admitted a Fellow of the
College, 12 August 1639, in obedience to a Mandate
from King Charles I, and 2 3 August following was
elected a Law Fellow, this relieving him from the obligation of taking Orders. The Physic "Place" and "Lecture" which he sought was the corresponding
medical Fellowship, tenable also without taking Orders, and the Lectureship on the Foundation of Thomas Linacre.
There are many points of interest in the tract which invite comment, but this is reserved for another occasion.
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CONTENTS.
PAGK The Master's Portrait 1 Notes from the College Hecords (co11liuued) 2 Euphrosyne 36 The Cave of Adullam 44
Aeschylus Moriturus 53 Innocents Abroad 56 A Priest of the Mysteries 62 The Gloom of Modern Literature 63 October Term 1913 69 'Homo Unius Libri ' 70 The Queen of Sleep 75 Presentation of the Master's Portrait 78 Arculi Sagittulae Nuper Hepertae 89 Old Johnian Henley Fund 91 Reviews 95
Mayoriana (couti11ued) 98 Our Chronicle 101 The Library . 14).. r List of Subscribers
Notes from the College Records (colllillucd) 153 Presentation of Dr Clark's Portrai t 177 A September Evening 182 Round the Clock 186 The Hour-Glass 188 Hampton Court 190 A Night at Beclclgelert in August. 191 Posidippus 194 Metrodorus 194 TJo[JJV 'TL>; {3t6TOLO 195
IIav-rol'lv {3ttJToto 195 An Essay in Criticism 196 To a Camembert Cheese 200 Some Fragments of Phlato 20L
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The Mayor Memorial Tablet 204
Mayoriana (coll!illucd) 205
Richard Gubbs Marrack, M.A.
The Commemoration Sermon
The Art of Character
Old Johnian Henley Fund
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Vae Victoribus
Obituary:
The Johnian Dinner, 1914
1815 andl915
Obituary for 1914
Notes from the College Records (colllillllCd) cr..,. ... .,._. - .A-;y. c. The Commeniofalion Serf110n .
Corstopitum
Good God!
New Poetry .
Think still high thoughts
College Mission to Wahvorlh
Lieutenant Kennelh Sinclair Thomson, B.A. Charles Glass Playfair Laidlaw, M.A.
William Wynn Pratt Piltom, B.A.
Our Chronicle
The Library
(Continued from Vol. xxxv., p. 300.)
O
N what follows a selection of letters is printed
of various dates which have been preserved in College. They cannot be said to be of very great interest, but occasionally they
throw a little light on some point of College history or on some of its members and so are worth putting on record.
John Smyth, the writer of the first letter, was one of the Fellows of the College admitted at its first opening on 29 July 1516. He was instituted Rector of Thorington, in Essex, 19 February 1521-2, on the presentation of Bishop Fisher and Hugh Ashton; he resigned the living in I 53 I. He is described as B.D. in the episcopal Act Book. In these early days the M:aster acted as Bursar of the College, and from several letters it would appear that in Metcalfe's absence from Cambridge Smyth acted as his deputy.
Ryght honourabyll syr in my humbly manner I hartyly recommend to your mastershyppe certyfyyng yow that I hauc resauyed your louyng letters of your seruand and as concernyng the matter that you wold haue Mr Gold to mak inquisition opon as yett he bays don notbyng in the caws VOL. XXXVI. B
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"One Man's Meat --"
A Paris Letter
"To all striving"
To Robert Bridges
100 101 107 108 114 116 118
\Villiam Henry Hoar Hudson, M.A., LL.M. 140 Camaji Byramji Navroji Cama, LL.M. 143
Our Chronicle 147 The War List 172 Ury lM Collegium Divi Johannis or Collegium Sancli Johannis (continued) 189 "There is a Minnesinger" .
Life and Death in Mesopotamia .
Three Northumbrian Batlles.-I. Degsastan
The Passing of Boyhood
Our War List
253 262 275 295 297
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The Commemoration Sermon
The Restoration of Rhodes to the Hospitallers
Icelandic Sagas
J oculatores
Obituary:
The Library
PAGg 301 333 339 340 348 351 359 362 363 370
379 388 397
COLLEGIUM: DIVI JOHANNIS 01'
COLLEGIUM SANCTI }OHANNIS. (w) WHEN the Master and Fellows kindly sent
me, in the summer of I9I I, a copy of their handsome Commemoration-Volume of the 400th Anniversary of the College, I had to defer reading it till I could find some moment of leisure. This moment did not come soon, and only last May I noticed, to my surprise, that the volume was lettered on the back "COLLEGIUM DIVI JOHANNIS ;" that the front board of the binding bore the inscription " COLLEGIUM DIVI JOHANNIS EVANGELISTAE,'' and that this latter phrase was also printed on the two title-pages in the book.
(I b) The Presentation form on the first prtnted page, however, has in English.: ''College of St Joh1z tlze Evangehst."
(xc) Moreover, "St John's College fourhundredth Anniversary" is printed in English on the tops of fifty pages in the book. And, beginning on p. 1, with the second line of Dr Bonney's short but interesting a . ccount of the College buildings and relics of olden tlme, down to the penultimate page (I 25), the College VOL. XXXVII. B
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Collegium Sancti J ohannis, not Collegium divi J ohannis (continued) 1
H. F R.-S. 33
An Evening Reverie 43
" Seeing the Zep " 44
' Divus or ' Sanctus ' 51
A' Few Earnest Words on Samuel Butler 60
Two Epigrams Translated . 74
A. S. Tetley, M.A. 118
Charles Thomas Clough, M.A., LL.D., F.G.S. 121
Waiter Edward Koch, M.A. 124
Our Chronicle 127
When the Past was Present 166
Three Northumbrian Battles. 11. and Ill. 168
Epigrams 177
Kanthi 178
Some Parallelisms in the Poets 187
The British Sphere of Persia 191
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The Public Orator and ' Divus'
Cadets in College
Obituary for 1916
Beats. 11.
(271a) THE EARLY STATUTES AND 0HDINANCES OF THE
CoLLEGE.
First edition, date Wednesday 9 April 1511
It gives me pleasure to be able to announce that, on Saturday the 2nd of September last, I discovered and identified the 1511 STATUTES of the College, which I had been assured had never existed, or if they had, no longer existed now
(27lb) I have to qualify this statement by saying, that the whole Code of 1511 has as yet not come to light, but only twelve Rellum leaves of it. These twelve leaves, however, enable me to give a fairly clear bibliographical and palaeographical description of the Volume of Statutes, which the first Master and the first three Fellows of the College of St John the Evangelist received and accepted, on Wednesday the 9th of April 1511, from Lady Margaret's Executors when they founded and established that College in the stead and on the
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CONTENTS.
Some Poems of the Eighteenth Century
Rufinus in Russian
Our Food Control
To--
Hadrian's Lament for .iEiia
Exile in Manchester
Homo Sapieus . "Peccavi"
The Southampton MSS.
By the Mill
AN UNDERGRADUATE'S DIARY.
IIHE Rev. C. F. Hutton (B.A. 1881), Incumbent of the College living of Frating, has presented to the College a diary kept by his father, the Rev. F. B. P. N. Hutton, when an undergraduate at
the College, from 6 November 1846-the beginning of his second year-until he took his degree in January 1849. The diary, in which considerable gaps occur, appears to have been kept for the information of his brother 'Tim '-the Rev. Thomas Biddulph Hutton, of Sidney-who was working in New Zealand with George Augustus Selwyn, afterwards Bishop of Lichfielcl. When completed it was sent out to him in New Zealand. Most of the episodes recorded, although immensely interesting to the recipient, have no special at­ traction for posterity, but we have occasional side-lights on the College life of seventy years ago which are well worth recording in the pages of The Eagle, and the pen-and-ink and pencil drawings with which the note-book is decorated have an interest of their own.
Our author, who describes himself by the now almost obsolete term of 'Junior Soph,' starts from Bexhill. Railways are still a novelty, and he is suitably impressed. 'I entered a second-class carriage and was quickly drawn along at a
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The Tutor
Thomas Gwatkin 57
Our Chronicle 59
The Library 77
The Mariners 86
In Hospital 90
Hymn 92 91
Day Before Yesterday 97
Hints for Forming a Library, by a Seventeenth-Century Scholar 98
The Junior Bursar 116
Roll of Honour 117
John Cleveland
A Woman
D HE Ckrollicles of the New Zealand Expediliona1y
Force for July, 1918, contains a series of short articles by the Rev. M. Mullineux, C.F. (B.A.
1896, attached to the New Zealand contingent), under the unassuming title, 'Leaves from a Padre's Diary' -an expansion of rough notes made between April 12 and May 14 of this year. As becomes an old Johnian, he is under no illusions, and does not waste himself in mere journalism. He does not write of battle scenes for the
excellent reason that he did not actually witness any battles. "A chaplain's work is of such a nature that it is practically
impossible for him to watch the fighting. By force of cir­ cumstances he may occasionally find himself in the midst of it, but such occasions are extremely rare. Even if he should find himself in the battle, his vision would be so limited that his description would give but a vague idea of what took place. War correspondents "write up" battles from time to time, but much of their copy must inevitably come from those who were actually fighting."
Our author deprecates the 'rose-coloured reports of many chaplains' as misleading, and courageously faces the real facts of war. It also appears from the ' Diary' that he is a daily dispenser of cigarettes, a subject on which his views are eminently wholesome.
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