Excerpt from Oxford Memories, Vol. 2 of 2: A Retrospect After Fifty Years
As to the commemoration rows, a few years since they had become a disgrace and the theatre a perfect bear garden. This was not so in ray time. Jokes and sentiments of a personal nature used to be heard with rather noisy notes of approbation, but not nothing to complain of. Names of distinguished men were called out for applause or hisses. Once "the Forty Pros" (pro-proctors chosen for the occasion) were followed by "the Forty Thieves," and when Travers Twiss was profuse in his Latin superlatives, fortissimus et doctissimus was followed with a suggestion of "et Travers Twissimus."
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