We have heard of divers jokes being passed on those who were supposed to have received such academical honours, as well as on those who had given them.

It is said Dr Samuel Johnson joined in this sarcastic humour.

But his prejudices both against Scotland and Scottish literature were well known.

Colman, in his amusing play of the "Heir at Law," makes his Dr.Pangloss ludicrously describe his receiving an LL.D.degree, on the grounds of his own celebrity (as he had never seen the college), and his paying the heads one pound fifteen shillings and threepence three farthings as a handsome compliment to them on receiving his diploma.

Colman certainly had studied at a northern university.