A PREVIOUS EXAMINATION

Was established at Cambridge (answering to the Oxford "Little-go,") by

which all students are required to undergo an examination in Classics

and Divinity, in the Lent term of the second year of their residence.

The successful candidates are divided into two classes only: but

there is always a select few who are _allowed_ to pass, after an extra

trial of skill: these are lumped at the end, and have been designated

"_Elegant Extracts_." Some wag furnished Jackson's Oxford Journal with

this

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