text:  We certainly flattered ourselves that if they found us in turbot and champagne we contributed at least our share to the more intellectual part of the entertainment; we kept within due bounds of course and never overstepped that respect which young men are usually the more willing to pay to age and station the less rigidly it is exacted; but we made the old oak pannels ring with such hearty laughter as they seldom heard; and the pictures of founders and benefactors might have longed to come down from their frames to welcome even the shadow of those good old times when sound learning and hearty good fellowship were not as now hereditary enemies in Oxford