WORCESTER
Worcester College was founded toward the end of the Thirteenth Century, as Gloucester Hall. In the middle of the Sixteenth Century it was called St. John Baptist Hall. And when, an hundred and fifty years later, a Worcestershire man left in his will the sum of ten thousand pounds "for the erection of an ornamental pile of buildings in Oxford, for a College," it again changed its name and its form, and became Worcester, as the world now sees and knows it.
The rules of Worcester, in its early days, were unusually strict. Each Tutor lived in an angle of the Quadrangle, and it was his particular business to keep the men from going to each other's rooms during the working-hours, which were many and long. Chapel, according to time of year, was attended at six thirty, or seven thirty, in the morning; dinner at twelve noon; supper was at seven o'clock instead of the usual six. The Gate was shut at nine; and at ten the key was taken to the Principal's room, after which no one was permitted to leave or to enter. The Tutors received all parental remittances and allowances; they paid all bills; and they handed the balance, if any, to the student for whom the whole was intended.
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