RE: Re: How long does it take to learn sorcery?

From: Richard, Jeff <jeff.richard_at_...>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:52:43 -0700

>> 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.
>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.

I've heard this story told from about a dozen Oxonians - who of course claim it as part of the lore of their University.

Jeff

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