. Thackerayana;. Second Term From Charterhouse School Thackeray went to Trinity College,Cambridge, about 1828, the year of his leaving the Charterhouse,and among his fellow-students there had Mr. John MitchellKemble, the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, and Mr. the latter—then unknown as a poet—he formed an ac- COLLEGE DA VS. 5 quaintance which he maintained to the last, and no reader of thePoet Laureate had a more earnest admiration of his productionsthan his old Cambridge associate, Thackeray. At college,Thackeray kept seven or eight terms, but took no degree : thoughhe was studious,
. Thackerayana;. Second Term From Charterhouse School Thackeray went to Trinity College,Cambridge, about 1828, the year of his leaving the Charterhouse,and among his fellow-students there had Mr. John MitchellKemble, the great Anglo-Saxon scholar, and Mr. the latter—then unknown as a poet—he formed an ac- COLLEGE DA VS. 5 quaintance which he maintained to the last, and no reader of thePoet Laureate had a more earnest admiration of his productionsthan his old Cambridge associate, Thackeray. At college,Thackeray kept seven or eight terms, but took no degree : thoughhe was studious, and his love of classical literature is apparent inmost of his writings, either in his occasional apt two words fromHorace, or in the quaint and humorous adoption of Latin idioms. O crikey, Father, theres a jolly great whats-a-name ! in which, in his sportive moods, he sometimes indulged. Arecent writer tells us that his knowledge of the classics—ofHorace at least—was amply sufficient to procure him an honour-able place in the previous examination. To the reader who would gain an insight into Thackeraysdoings at Cambridge, we say, Glance through the veraciouspages in which he records the University career of Mr. ArthurPendennis; you will there at least seize the spirit of his owncollege days, if perchance you do not find the facts of the authors 52 THA CKERA YANA. own residence circumstantially stated. Take his studies for example. 1 During the first term of Mr. Pens academical life, he attended classical and mathematical lectures with tolerable assi-duity; but discovering before verylong time that he had little tasteor genius for the pursuing the exactsciences, and being perhaps ratherannoyed that one or two very vulgaryoung men, who did not even usestraps
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