Why is the poor College servitor to wear that name and that badge still?
Because Universities are the last places into which Reform penetrates.
But now that she can go to College and back for five shillings, let her
travel down thither.
CHAPTER XIV--ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS
All the men of Saint Boniface will recognize Hugby and Crump in these
two pictures. They were tutors in our time, and Crump is since advanced
to be President of the College. He was formerly, and is now, a rich
specimen of a University Snob.
At five-and-twenty, Crump invented three new metres, and published
an edition of an exceedingly improper Greek Comedy, with no less than
twenty emendations upon the German text of Schnupfenius and Schnapsius.
These Services to religion instantly pointed him out for advancement in
the Church, and he is now President of Saint Boniface, and very narrowly
escaped the bench.
Crump thinks Saint Boniface the centre of the world, and his position as
President the highest in England. He expects the fellows and tutors to
pay him the same sort of service that Cardinals pay to the Pope. I am
sure Crawler would have no objection to carry his trencher, or Page to
hold up the skirts of his gown as he stalks into chapel. He roars out
the responses there as if it were an honour to heaven that the President
of Saint Boniface should take a part in the service, and in his own
lodge and college acknowledges the Sovereign only as his superior.
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