text:  Why don't you know my dear fellow the college hall in the opinion of the dean and the vice is held rather more sacred of the two? Newcome poor devil attempted to cut a joke at the high table one of the times he dined there after he was elected and he told me that they all stared at him as if he had insulted them; and the vice (in confidence) explained to him that such 'levity' was treason against the '_reverentia loci_!'" "Ay I remember when that old villain Solomon the porter fined me ten shillings for walking in there with spurs one day when I was late for dinner; he said the dean always took off his cap when he went in there by himself and threatened to turn off old Higgs when he had been scout forty years because he heard him whistling one day while he was sweeping it out! Well " continued Savile "you shall have my rooms; I sha'n't trouble them much now