lege, Oxford; first class, classics, 1836; University prizeman, Latin verse, 1834; Eldon scholar, 1837. § PAULET, Sir HENRY C., Bart. (1828), captain 2nd Dragoon Guards. § ABDY, Sir THOMAS NEVILLE, Bart. (1828), member of parliament for Lyme Regis, 1847. * GRAHAM, JOHN (1828), of Wadham College, Oxford; prizeman, English verse, 1833, "Granada". § GORE, Sir ST. GEORGE, Bart. (1828). + HUGHES, JAMES R., M.A. (1829), canon of Chichester, 1847. § BOYLE, Hon. R. T. CAVENDISH, M.A. (1829), chaplain in ordinary. BROME, Viscount (1830). § LITTON, EDWARD A., M.A. (1830), first classman, classics, 1835; fellow of Oriel College, Oxford; vice-principal of St. Edmund Hall; author of the "Church of Christ in its Idea, Attributes, and Ministry", 1851. § SILCHESTER, Lord, Earl of Longford (1831), captain, 2nd Life Guards. § PENROSE, F. C., A.M., (1833), of Magdalen College, Cambridge; author of an "Inquiry into the Principles of Athenian Architecture", 1851. § DARELL, Sir HARRY, F.C., Bart. (1834), lieutenant-colonel, 7th Dragoon Guards. § DE CRESPIGNY, Sir CLAUDE W. C., Bart., (1834). Ş BAGOT, ALEXANDER (1834), captain, 15th Regt. N.I.; aidede-camp to Lord Gough, and to Marquis Dalhousie; he wears a cross for Gwalior; a medal and clasps for the battles of Maharajpore, Moodkee, Sobraon, Chillianwallah, Goojerat, and Ram naggur. § TROWER, CHARLES F., M.A. (1834), Co. Præ., chancellor's prizeman, 1838; first classman, classics; Vinerian scholar, 1840; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. † WELLS, EDWARD, D. Med. (1884), Radclyffe's Travelling Fellow. § LE BAS, C. S. (1834), a judge in India. § ARNOLD, MATTHEW, M.A. (1835), fellow of Oriel College, Oxford; prizeman, English verse, "Cromwell", 1843. § ARNOLD, THOMAS, M.A., fellow of University College, Oxford; first classman, classics, 1845. † MAY, H. T., M.A. (1835), proctor, 1849. § FANSHAWE, FREDERICK, M.A. (1835), Co. Præ., 1838; Heathcote prizeman, 1838; fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; first classman, classics, 1842; chancellor's prizeman, Latin verse, 1841. † CRIPPS, HENRY W., M.A. (1836), author of a "Treatise on Ecclesiastical Law". § DICKINS, WILLIAM, M.A. (1837), Co. Præ., 1839: fellow of Merton College, Oxford; first classman, classics, 1846. § OGLE, RICHARD J., M.A. (1838), first classman, classics, 1848; fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford; commoner tutor. This promising scholar lies buried in cloisters. § BELLERS, ROBERT B. (1839), captain H.M. 50th foot, has a medal for Punniar, 1843; and medal and three clasps for Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Aliwal, and Sobraon, 1845-6. § THRUPP, FRANCIS J., A.B. (1839), Duncan prizeman, 1842; Heathcote, 1844; first classman, classical Tripos, and wrangler, 1849. * BLACKSTONE, CHARLES, B.A. (1840), scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Newdigate prizeman, "Columbus in chains", 1848. § SCLATER, PHILIP L. M.A. (1841), scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; first classman, mathematics, 1849. * RIDDING, GEORGE, B.A. (1842), fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; Maltby prizeman, 1846; Heathcote prizeman, 1845; first classman, classics, 1851; Craven scholar, 1851. † WHITE, HENRY M., M.A. (1842), Heathcote prizeman, 1836; first classman, classics, 1842; Johnson scholar, 1843; Hebrew scholar, 1846; canon of Cape Town, 1852. * FURNEAUX, HENRY, B.A. (1841), scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Goddard scholar, 1846; first classman, classics, 1851. § BEAUMONT, Sir GEORGE H., Bart. * RAYNES, WILLIAM, A.B. (1844), of Clare Hall, Cambridge; Maltby prizeman, 1848; Latin ode, at Cambridge, 1850; first classman, classical Tripos, 1852. * GARDINER, SAMUEL, B.A., of Christ Church, Oxford; Duncan prizeman, 1841; first classman, classics, 1851. THESE pages will recall to Wykehamical readers the sense of pain and loneliness, almost of desertion, which attended their first parting from home for any lengthened period, and entrance upon the little world of a public school; the necessity of making friendships, conciliating kindness, and of exertion to emancipate themselves from the roughs of subordinate place: they will recall the joyous peals of "party rolls" and "packing-up", and the longings for the final "leaving" of school for the serious entrance upon life; and also the pang of regret with which, on the last night of the half, they actually took leave of friend and rival, and even of the comparative stranger-junior, according to custom. Passing years throw a solemn and affectionate interest over the place where we first made the friendship that promised to last out our time, and cannot be revived on this side the grave; the place where, from careful and anxious masters, we learned those lessons which nerve us for the battle in the great world, wherein, upon a larger stage, and in more intense degree, are reproduced the pains and pleasures of boyhood; the place where the character of the man was formed. To the old Commoner many objects of interest are lost, the elms, and long seat, the ball-court, and cloisters, the conduit, galleries, and "toys"-wainscotted hall, with their remembrances of the "peals" at the end of the half-years; the illuminations and shout ings when the medals, or "Heathcote", were in Commoners; and the merry cry of "Collier's up!" when the London coaches, with cheery bugle, and four fast bays in new shining harness, rattled up to the door of “Wickham's”; while phaetons and gigs lined Collegestreet and Kingsgate-street, to convey their happy freights on the roads to Whitchurch or Southampton. Still the cordial friendships, the "sweet, familiar companions", survive, made within those walls; still, for scholar and commoner alike, the sight of college tower warms the heart, and all the characteristics of the old scenes live in his recollection with a vividness which time cannot dim or obliterate, for they retain the charm and freshness of the morning-time of our years; like the recognition of freemasonry, they cling to the memory in the most distant land, and amid all the shifting events of life; so that the name of Wykehamist, to all who have been at Winchester, is the sure passport to enlist kindly feeling, despite every difference of age, or position, or opinions, for it ever seems to involve an indelibly dear and holy tie. We part with regret from a subject so interesting to a Wykehamist, the history of the most ancient of the royal schools of England, the parent of Eton, and the model of Westminster, the two sister-colleges, and other later foundations. We have observed in the case of Winchester only the results of the wise system that aims at the inculcation of generous emulation and enlarged sentiments; a system the distinctive feature of England, the most liberal education in Europe, wherein religious in struction, and not intellectual training, forms a paramount feature. "Præsentes regulas, ordinationes, et constitutiones, et statuta sic per nos edita", says Wykeham, (and Henry VI repeats his words) " ad Dei laudem et gloriam, Divinique cultus ac scientiarum augmentum, studiique scholastici profectum, necnon ad præfati Collegii commodum et decorem valere, et perpetuis durare temporibus, ac robur incommutabilis firmitatis volumus obtinere." Well might his affectionate son say with a just pride: "Omnis certi parentis nostri conatus ad nihil aliud collimat, quàm ut in alumnorum suorum pectoribus omni doctrinæ et pietati, imò Christo Ipsi, domicilium construat."-N. Harpsfield, Hist. Angl. Eccles. p. 554, Duac. 1622. "Neither do I doubt", says old Stow, of Wykeham, "but that he, that thus lived, is now with God, Whom I beseech to raise up many like bishops in England." In the public schools the seeds are sown of a ripe harvest, when the age of reflection shall arrive; the memory is stored with sterling principles and precepts to guide their children in after-life. It is only in maturer years that the full benefits are appreciated. Here the boy is taught a modest reserve, and yet just self-reliance, in the collision with the members of a great assemblage of boys, spirited, intelligent, and possessed with a common feeling of attachment to the place wherein they are nurtured, pervading all who come within its sphere, yet drawing closer the ties of love of home, increased by an absence not so protracted as to induce alienation or forgetfulness. To the novelty and expectation of the boy newly |