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Updated: June 3, 2025
"Come on, Tulke, cried Naughten, from the prefects' brake. "Yes, we're comin'. Shove up and make room, you Collegers. You've all got to be back next term, with your 'Yes, sir, and 'Oh, sir, an' 'No sir' an' 'Please sir'; but before we say good-by we're going to tell you a little story. Kick that hat-box under the seat, an' don't crowd your Uncle Stalky."
There were few inducements to study and to excel in scholarship, and plenty to idleness and neglect, hence he who did so must study in hours and out of hours, in season and out of season. The curriculum is still strictly classical, but French, German and mathematics are taught. The collegers of recent years have done very fair work and carried off many distinctions at Cambridge.
The Institution is governed by six directors, the three first Collegers and the three first Oppidans for the time being; and the subscribers are limited to the one hundred senior members of the school. It is only to be regretted that the collection is not so extensive at it is interesting and choice. Perhaps its existence is not so generally known as it deserves to be.
A reputation for good sense and judgment made his authority of great weight in the school, and his independent spirit led him to choose, amongst his most intimate friends and associates, two collegers, who ultimately became Newcastle scholars and medallists.
"Long chamber" is long enough to contain nearly the whole of the collegers, or boys on the foundation, whose complement I conjecture to be about seventy. This is a region of which I can give but an uncertain description, for few "Oppidans" cared to venture in. En passant this tossing was a pastime replete with the sublime and awful.
The student was now safe from the ordeal of examinations, and that the higher classes, including ten senior collegers and ten senior oppidans, contained some of the very worst scholars. "A boy's place on the general roll was no more a criterion of his acquirements and his industry than would be the 'year' of a young man at Oxford or Cambridge."
It also had two kinds of scholars, namely, seventy called king's scholars or "collegers," who are maintained gratuitously, sleep in the college, and wear a peculiar dress; and another class the majority called "oppidans," who live in the town. Between these two classes of students there prevails perpetual hostility.
Collegers are dieted solely on mutton; hence they are familiarly and vulgarly termed "mutton-tugs," abbreviated to "tugs," which homely monosyllable they themselves derive from togati, on account of their wearing the toga had they not better trace their origin at once from that mysterious and secret society of the Thugs of India?
With equal facility he recalled my father in his classes, looking out for collegers to do him credit, my mother passing silently along her retired household ways, Agnes Anne dividing her time between helping her mother in the house, and teaching the classes for which I used to be responsible in the school. It was a memorable day in the little house above the Meadows.
'Yes, indeed, Holt, I want to travel and see the world at a distance from here. 'If it was no more than that, Mr. John, there would be nothing about it. Zeeing the world! You young collegers allays does that. But be'est thou to come back and be Squoire o'Folking? 'I think not, Holt, I think not. My father, I hope, will be Squire for many a year. 'Like enough.
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