There is, I fancy, rather more than meets the eye
in the protest of the Public Orator of Cambridge against the statement that a certain gentleman represented the University of Cambridge at the canonization of Sir Thomas More and Bishop Fisher. If it turned oat that soundings had been taken, and the idea of University representation had not found favour, there would be good ground for objecting to the statement that Cambridge was in fact represented. But there is a certain piquancy in the entry of Dr. Glover into these particular lists. For was not Bishop Fisher co-founder, or something very like it, of his own college of St. John's ? And did not Dr. Glover himself commemorate the fact in a boating-song whose Latinity deserves both study • and admiration ? Let me quote (from memory) : • Mater regum Margareta Piscatori dixit laeta, " Audi quod propositum. Est remigium decorum, Dulce strepitus remorum ; Ergo sit collegium."
" Piscator "tout nu is perhaps a little inadequate for a saint, but poetic licence will cover it.
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