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Title: Records and reminiscences, personal and general
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir, 1836-1917
Subjects: Journalism
Publisher: London : Methuen & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to live in. I am notat all sure of my facts; but I am quite clear as tothe tradition, concerning the charm of existence atDowning, that obtained at Trinity. For the manfrom Downing had to come a long way to seehis friends and chums at Trinity, and round andabout that centre which was the hub of the uni-vers -ity, and needs must that he came, otherwisehe would have been isolated, since not a youth fromTrinity with a reputation to lose ever visited Down-ing ; and to a considerable number the very existenceof such a college was unknown, while as a localhabitation and a name, it was, at the time of whichI am speaking, associated in the minds of Trinitymen chiefly with the style and title of CrackerCay ley. I have mentioned wines, but in my day thisfashion, as far as concerned Trinity, was fast dyingout, and was yielding to late dinners and post-prandial conviviality ; wines, i.e. wine parties withfruit and cakes after hall were for babes amongthe freshmen ; but breakfasts, dejeuners a la
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i. C. 1!. As POPPLL IN A FARCK UK HI.-> OWN W KITTEN FORTHK A.D.C., CAMUKIDGt, IN 1850 EARLY CLOSING 275 fourchette at so convenient an hour in the morningas would suit the not-much-reading man (for anyhour would suit the non-reading man ), and dinnersand suppers became quite de rigiieur during thethree years and a half that I was up at Trinity.Suppers naturally followed on late rehearsals andperformances at the A.D.C., of which I shall heretreat briefly, having given the full history of thatclub in another place. It is with a smile of complacency that I can lookback to those early days and remember how, verygradually, the ** dons discovered that it would beas well first of all to wink at the amateurdramatic performances, and then to thoroughly opentheir eyes to the fact that it would be far better togive them first of all their tacit acquiescence, andfinally such open encouragement as was shown,practically, by tutors granting extension of leave after closing hours to men who had e

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