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or sold in open market. According to this reading, few indeed have been our benefactors. Harvey, it is true, adopted this College as his heir, and left to us his lands, his books, as well as his name and fame and the example of his virtues. Dr. Hamey, too, gave us money, and we have had small bequests and gifts from other sources; but it all amounts to but little, some 600 l. a year or so. We must seek a higher meaning for the word ‘benefactors’ than is associated with any idea of money.
‘Non ebur neque aureum
Nostrâ renidet in domo lacunar:
Non trabes Hymettiæ
Premunt columnas ultimâ recisas
Africâ.’
What comparison will this our College bear with the magnificent halls of the great City Companies?
I remember, Sir, how, once a year, it was my duty when Censor to be present when stock was taken of our plate. You will correct me if I give the inventory wrongly. A silver punchbowl, innocent for the past fifty years at least of the generous brewage, and used ever since I can remember to collect the voting-papers at
