Re: How long does it take to learn sorcery?

From: Thomas McVey <tmcvey_at_...>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:50:52 -0800

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> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 18:26:38 -0000
> From: gamartin_at_...
> Subject: Re: How long does it take to learn sorcery?
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> Early renaissance universtities are quite violent places - many of
> them made wearing a sword obligatory - Cambridge still has a sword as
> part of dress in its statutes, apparently, although nobody wears them
> any more of course.

They didn't get rid of wearing gowns in the town until the 1960s.

There's the old story (probably apocryphal) of a student sitting the Tripos (exams in Cantabridgean-speak), demanding a flagon of ale and bread, which as a gentleman he was entitled under the Statutes of the University, and then three weeks later getting fined for not wearing a sword.

Could just be an urban legend (like the story of a cox being impaled by the point of a racing eight). But, if you've ever seen their graduation ceremony, no bizaare medievalism is too far-fetched.

Tom