WHIPPED EVEN TO THE TWENTIETH YEAR.

"Dr. Potter," says Aubery, while a tutor of the above college,

"_whipped his pupil with his sword by his side_, when he came to take

his leave of him to go to the Inns of Court." This was done to make

him a _smart_ fellow. "In Sir John Fane's collection of letters of the

Paston family, written _temp_. Henry VI.," says the author of the

_Gradus ad Catabrigiam_, "we find one of the GENTLE SEX prescribing

for her son, who was at Cambridge," no doubt with a maternal anxiety

that he should

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