text:  It may seem to argue something of a want of sympathy to find amusement in misfortunes which might any day be our own; but any one who ever witnessed the air of ludicrous alarm with which an under-graduate prepares to obey the summons (capable of but one interpretation )--"The dean wishes to see you sir at ten o'clock"--which so often in my time at least was sent as a whet to some of the assembled guests at a breakfast party; whoever has been applied to on such occasions for the loan of a tolerable cap (that of the delinquent having its corners in such dilapidated condition as to proclaim its owner a "rowing man" at once ) or has responded to the pathetic appeal--"Do I look _very_ seedy?"--any one to whom such absurd recollections of early days occur--and if you good reader are a university man as being a gentleman I am bound in charity to conclude you are and yet have no such reminiscences--allow me to suggest that you must have been a very slow coach indeed;--any one I say once more who knows the ridiculous figure which a man cuts when "hauled up" before the college Minos or Radamanthus will easily forgive his friends for being inclined to laugh at him