Scholars of Queen's still keep up the ancient academic system of dining; and that to this day, on every Christmas is produced a boar's head, with a lemon in its mouth, in great and antique style, although nothing seems to be done, officially, with the rest of the boar. Aubrey, in his time, explained that the head being boiled, or roasted, was laid on a large charger, covered with a garland of bays or laurels; a famous song, too long to find place here, was sung by the entire company; and then, to quote a more modern catch, the elephant appears to have marched around and the band to have begun to play. Tradition, according to a foot-note in Wade's "Walks in Oxford," declares that this serving of the boar's head commemorated an act of valor on the part of a student of the College, name and date not given, who while strolling studiously in the neighboring forest of Shotover, and reading Aristotle, was suddenly encountered by the monarch of a herd of wild swine. The furious beast, we are told, came upon him open mouthed, and was as suddenly conquered by the thrusting of the volume into his ravenous gullet; the savage being fairly choked by the sage. Why do we not have Aristotles in our hands, in these present days, to silence the bores we meet, in our quads and on our campuses? Alas, there are more bores than
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