How can I adequately express my appreciation of the great honour thus done me by the Earl of Balfour, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Justice Atkin, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, and many other leaders in academic and legal circlesnot to forget the Chief Justice of the United States, who paid me the great compliment of attending the last lecture.

And, as such an one offered in the year 1785, when he was vice-chancellor of the University, he embraced it.

I should advise you to go at once to the vice-chancellor and ask him for a box of good cigars.

For many minutes, after I was brought in front of the Vice-Chancellor, it was impossible to proceed with the ceremony on account of the uproar.

The kneeling before the Vice-Chancellor and placing hands in the Vice-Chancellor's hands were those of the old form of doing homage.

On Feb. 27th I met them at Caius Lodge (the Master, Dr Davy, being Vice-Chancellor).

It recommended that the salary should be annually made up (by Grace) to £500: that an Assistant should be appointed with the assent of the Vice-Chancellor and dismissable by the Plumian Professor: and that a Visiting Syndicate should be appointed, partly official and partly of persons to be named every year by Grace.

On Jan. 5th I received notice from Simms that he had received payment (£1050) for the Mural Circle from the Vice-Chancellor.

On Dec. 14th I resigned my Professorship to the Vice-Chancellor.

So I rigged myself up and went to the levée at the Lodge and was presented in my turn; by the Vice-Chancellor as "Ex-Professor Airy, your Majesty's Astronomer Royal."

We were much disgusted and refused to pay it, and I wrote angrily to Dr Wynter, the Vice-Chancellor.

I wrote to the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University.

The Rev. Dr Cartmell, Master of Christ's College and Vice-Chancellor. ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH, 1866, May 11.

" 1858 Nov. 20 Letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, offering the Sheepshanks Endowment.

The gravity of the stern Vice-Chancellor was upset, but as no Oxford Don can ever pardon a joke, however good, Master Theodore was very nearly being dismissed, had not his brother, by this time a Prebendary of Winchester, and 'an honour to his college, sir,' interceded in his favour.

'I said something about an order from the Vice-Chancellor.

"At our taking leave," writes Colley, jubilantly, "we had the thanks of the vice-Chancellor for the decency and order observ'd by our whole society, an honour which had not always been paid upon the same occasions; for at the act in King William's time I remember some pranks of a different nature had been complain'd of.

HUDDESFORD, Rev. Dr., Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, i. 280, 322; Johnson's letter to him, i. 282. Hudibras.

The Vice-Chancellor has his seat on one side, the preacher, with the two Proctors below him, sits opposite; and there all sit in their robes, more or less grand, according to the day, till the beadle comes to announce that it is time to form the procession into church.

But after the deliberations of the judges were concluded, and after the decision to condemn the sermon had been reached, one of them, Dr. Pusey's old friend, Dr. Jelf, was privately charged with certain communications from the Vice-Chancellor, on which the seal of absolute secrecy was imposed, and which, in fact, we believe, have never been divulged from that day to this.

The Protestantism of the Vice-Chancellor and the Six Doctors was, of course, extolled by partisans in the press with reckless ignorance and reckless contempt at once for common justice and their own consistency.

The Vice-Chancellor lost his temper.

The taste of Vice-Chancellors and Heads of Houses, of keepers and under-keepers of librariescan anybody trust it?

"The Vice-Chancellor made a most lovely speech after the addressan eloquent and splendid tribute to the stage.

You will observe that the first two chapters are dedicated to another, for I had really begun to write them with a dedication to your unfortunate relative Ascanio Sforza, Cardinal and Vice-chancellor.