Note 110 — II. BALLIOL COLLEGE.[7]
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J. Pointer, Oxoniensis Academia (1749), i. 11. Hearne mentions a custom which had been given up at Merton since Wood’s time, but which partially survived “at Brazenose and Balliol coll., and no where else that I know of. I take the original thereof to have been a custom they had formerly for the young men to say something of their founders and benefactors, so that the custom was originally very laudable, however afterwards turned into ridicule:” Reliqq. Hearn, iii. 76.