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The Book of Snobs

CHAPTER XIV--ON UNIVERSITY SNOBS
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All the men of Saint Boniface will recognize Hugby and Crump in these two pictures.

They were tutors in our time, and Crump is since advanced to be President of the College.

He was formerly, and is now, a rich specimen of a University Snob.
At five-and-twenty, Crump invented three new metres, and published an edition of an exceedingly improper Greek Comedy, with no less than twenty emendations upon the German text of Schnupfenius and Schnapsius.
These Services to religion instantly pointed him out for advancement in the Church, and he is now President of Saint Boniface, and very narrowly escaped the bench.
Crump thinks Saint Boniface the centre of the world, and his position as President the highest in England.

He expects the fellows and tutors to pay him the same sort of service that Cardinals pay to the Pope.

I am sure Crawler would have no objection to carry his trencher, or Page to hold up the skirts of his gown as he stalks into chapel.


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