A College Story.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 3 (Supplement)

A College Story.

Aff excellent story is told about Mr Ingram By water Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, a ponvivial Don, whom I cordially congratulate on his new appointment as corresponding member of the Cologne Academy of Science. In bygone years, so runs the Oxford legend, Mr Bywafer Was seen to return, ab an un; usually late horny from an evening party. Arriving safely in th? quadrangle of his ojwn College, the learned gentleman opened his umbrella, sat down in tailor fashion on the ground, ancj assured all who enquired tjie why arid Tvherefore of his strange prpceedirigs, that he waa a bl^m^less mushropm, and wp waiting to cfro^ By such simple devices, are men of genius able to timuse themselves ! The anecdote, I ftaVe no doubt, is the unkind fabrication of ap enemy. Nevertheless, ib forma the subject of a clever caricature, still to be seen by favoured customers, at the shop of xVIr Shrimpton, in the Broad.