A Whistler, a silver
pint tankard also in use there, was the gift of Mr. Anthony
Whistler, a cotemporary with Shenstone.
* Common room man, a servant who is entirely employed in
attending upon the members of the common room.
Junior common room, a room in every college, except Christ
Church, set apart for the junior members to drink wine in
and read the newspapers.
N.B. There is but one common room at Christ Church; none but
masters of arts and noblemen can be members of it,--the
latter but seldom attend. The last who attended was the late
Duke of Dorset. All common rooms are regularly furnished
with newspapers and magazines.
_Curator of the common rooms_.-A senior master of arts, who
buys the wine and inspects the accounts.
~137~~ In the centre of the opposite side hung the portrait of an old
_scout_, formerly of Brazennose, whose head now forms the admission
ticket to the college club. Right and left were disposed the plaster
busts of Aristotle and Cicero; the former noseless, and the latter with
his eyes painted black, and a huge pair of mustachios annexed. A few
volumes of the Latin and Greek classics were thrown into a heap in one
corner of the room, while numerous modern sporting publications usurped
their places on the book shelves, richly gilt and bound in calf, but not
lettered.
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