There was the head of a college who used to invite the undergraduates in rotation to breakfast, and formed an estimate of their characters according to the breakfasts which they made. He liked to see the young fellows make a good hearty breakfast. If they did so he thought they were honest, hearty fellows, who were going on in the right way ; but if they did not make a good breakfast, he suspected them of an undue devotion to cigars and ardent spirits. This was rather a rough and ready way of arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time, and the breakfast invariably consisted of an egg and a chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take the chop and I will take the egg." The immense breakfast feeds of the university, which required a good deal of fluid to wash them down, were very properly rebuked by the sumptuary example of this worthy tutor.-London Society.
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