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feparate fVudies; and, when writing private letters,:were obliged to cover them with tneir hands, toprevent over inipection *►.

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* The Members of this College are celebrated for the ori-gin of a term, which is in great requeft among the coxcomb'sof the day. “ I'o cut” — i. e. to look an. old friend in theface, and afitfl not to know him. The art of cutting was-firft exemplified in a.comedy, publicly afled by the Studentsof St. John’s, in 1606, entitled, “ The Return from Par-rtaffus.” This elegant term is in equal.requeft at the AfterUniverfity.

A very degrading appellation has been long applied to tireMembers of St. John’s, of which I find the fidleft accountin an ingenious and'amafing little.book lately publilhed,'en-titled, “ Gradus ad Cantabrigiam.” It is there obferved,that the origin of the term ‘Johnian Hogs, has not been hi-therto rightly afcertained. The, Gentleman’s Magazine for,1795, contains this jest d'effrit;

“ A genius efpying a coffee r houfe waiter carrying a mefs“ to a Johnian in another box, aficed, if it was a difti of!< grainsi—The Johnian inftantly wrote on the window—

Says-the John'-s eat-grains ; fwppofe it true,

They pay for what they eatj dots he lb too

Another writer, pretends to have.difcovered the following"iha.fcarce little book of, epigrams, written .by one.Mifter-James Johnfon, clerk, printed in 1613. '

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